Quality assurance and data requirements of the child health programme

Abstract

This chapter outlines how the child health programme should be appraised and the issues of classification and coding, staff awareness of information systems, and data flows are highlighted. Sentinel event analysis is used to describe how safety and effectiveness of the programme might be enhanced. Various international examples of quality dashboards are also described including how they are used for information feedback to parents, health and other professionals, as well as policymakers in the pursuit of continuous quality improvement.