Focus groups revealed the value of holding discussions with service providers, as the focus groups undertaken in this evaluation were the first formal opportunity for service providers to provide feedback on the call centre service.
The Web-based program included patient access to electronic medical records, secure e-mail with providers, feedback on blood glucose readings, an educational Web site, and an interactive online diary for entering information about exercise, diet, and medication.
Quality control is handled by the company's own delivery providers and customers who provide feedback on the quality of goods that are bought from different vendors.
Thus, the scheduled supervision and monitoring activities conducted during this project, which included direct observation of clinical encounters and debriefing sessions with the providers, was designed to provide feedback on clinical skills and reinforce fidelity to the specifications of the mhGAP-IG.
In this sense, rating systems are used as formative assessments to provide feedback on how childcare providers and early childhood educators can improve their programs, rather than summative evaluations that are used solely for the purpose of classifying and judging the current quality of a program.
The focus groups undertaken in this evaluation were the first time service providers had been asked to provide feedback on the call centre service, which they reported valuing greatly.
The objective of a cost-efficiency profiling system is to encourage cost-inefficient healthcare providers to change their practice patterns by providing feedback on their cost efficiency.
A similar situation occurs when patients provide feedback on their physicians or other health providers.
Provide feedback on their performance.
These stars are a standard part of provider feedback reports on CQ-index survey results, enabling providers to compare their performance against that of others.
