TY - JOUR AU - Muinga, Naomi AU - Ayieko, Philip AU - Opondo, Charles AU - Ntoburi, Stephen AU - Todd, Jim AU - Allen, Elizabeth AU - English, Mike PY - 2014 DA - 2014/06/28 TI - Using health worker opinions to assess changes in structural components of quality in a Cluster Randomized Trial JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 282 VL - 14 IS - 1 AB - The ‘resource readiness’ of health facilities to provide effective services is captured in the structure component of the classical Donabedian paradigm often used for assessment of the quality of care in the health sector. Periodic inventories are commonly used to confirm the presence (or absence) of equipment or drugs by physical observation or by asking those in charge to indicate whether an item is present or not. It is then assumed that this point observation is representative of the everyday status. However the availability of an item (consumables) may vary. Arguably therefore a more useful assessment for resources would be one that captures this fluctuation in time. Here we report an approach that may circumvent these difficulties. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-14-282 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-14-282 ID - Muinga2014 ER -