Urgent need to improve quality of outpatient care in public and private sector in poorer countries
Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
The overall poor quality of outpatient healthcare in both the formal private and public sector in low and middle income countries is worryingespecially given the increasing volume of chronic conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, which require relatively sophisticated, long-term outpatient medical care.