PSP-One Seeks Advice From Health Care Quality Experts in 24 Countries

The PSP-One project is seeking a small amount of time from experts willing to be interviewed who are knowledgeable about the status of the quality of care being provided by the public and private sector in these 24 countries:

Africa	Latin America	Asia	Eastern Europe
Benin	Colombia	Bangladesh	Albania
Burkina Faso	Ecuador	Cambodia
Cote d'Ivoire	El Salvador	Indonesia
Gabon	Guatemala	Nepal
Guinea	Haiti
Mali	Honduras
Mauritania	Paraguay
Morocco	Peru
Mozambique
Namibia
Tunisia

If you are willing to participate, we will ask you hold a 45-minute phone interview sometime in early November, scheduled at your convenience and at our cost. The purpose of the country scan is to:

• Identify what is known concerning standards of clinical care and monitor compliance to those clinical standards and the measurement approaches applied by the public and private sector to improve quality of care in different countries and regions; e.g. summarize if there are regional differences in approaches and groups worked with;
• Summarize the lessons learned and successful interventions in improving quality of care in the private sector in developing countries;
and
• Identify the gaps in information and prioritize the needs and technical issues that need to be addressed by future activities concerning quality of care.

This information will be compiled into a wall chart and a report that will present information about the status of "quality" in developing countries in order to provide direction for strengthening and/or scaling up the efforts in both the public and private sector to improve quality of care.

If you are interested in assisting us, please send your name, e-mail address and/or telephone number to Dr. Mary Segall at Mary_Segall@abtassoc.com. Your contribution will be acknowledged in the written report. Thank you for your assistance.