Information in addition to the SCRQoL questions included demographic characteristics, service receipt, quality of life and psychological wellbeing, health, dependency, feelings of control, social contact and support, and participation in groups and volunteering.
A framework to help prioritize investments and opportunities for collaboration has been absent, especially given the complexity of health systems, where the receipt of quality care by clients is often contingent on several preceding layers of enabling conditions.
Instead, receipt of quality care results from a complex system of factors.
A knowledgeable, empowered client is central to the provision and receipt of quality family planning services.
Delay-causing factors were significantly different between the groups for care-seeking and receipt of quality medical care.
Their demographic and disease characteristics are described in Table 2. Since treatment for CRC depends on stage at diagnosis [ 7], stage data are key in examining issues surrounding timely receipt of quality care and the impact on patient outcomes.
The assessment of the delivery or receipt of quality health care may seem deceptively straightforward, with large quantities of data available in health care records or cancer registries, for example.
In a cohort study of 556 patients initiating dialysis, receipt of quality care in the management of CKD-related complications prior to dialysis initiation was associated with greater survival during the first year following dialysis initiation [ 10].
Analyses will examine the impact of the intervention on patients' and caregivers' participation in medical consultations, their self-efficacy in medical encounters, quality-of-life, end-of-life care receipt and quality-of-death indicators.
Wave 2 was the first wave to include questions on receipt of quality-indicated healthcare, and information was not collected on every variable in every wave.
Additional secondary and tertiary outcome measures will be collected: ASIA motor and sensory scales, Kurtzke expanded disability status scale, International Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Bladder/Bowel Data Set, Client Services Receipt Index, Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, EQ-5D, SCI Pain and SCI Quality of Life Data Sets.
