Volume : VIII, Issue : I, January - 2019

Assessment of Primary Health-Care Centers in Dammam and Khobar, Saudi Arabia. A comparison between CBAHI and Non-CBAHI accredited centers.

Dr. Ali Almuraikhi, Dr. Fayez Alzahrani

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Objectives

Primary care fundamentally contributes to Saudi Arabia’s health–care system. Saudi Vision 2030 targets high–quality primary health care. Knowing where we stand to fulfill this is important. This study assesses primary health–care centers and compares accredited centers with nonaccredited centers in Dammam and Khobar, Saudi Arabia. ADDIN CSL_CITATION { "citationItems" : [ { "id" : "ITEM–1", "itemData" : { "DOI" : "10.1016/S0140–6736(94)90634–3", "ISBN" : "0755711793", "ISSN" : "01406736", "PMID" : "7934497", "abstract" : "Primary care is widely perceived to be the backbone of a rational health services system. But is this perception correct? Some see it as an anachronism in the present medical era, denying and delaying the specialist attention to which patients are entitled. When primary care physicians act as "gatekeepers" to specialists services, what is the effect on outcomes? How many general practitioners are needed in a primary–care–oriented system? In this paper I address these and other questions. Let me begin with definitions. ", "author" : [ { "dropping–particle" : "", "family" : "Starfield", "given" : "Barbara", "non–dropping–particle" : "", "parse–names" : false, "suffix" : "" } ], "container–title" : "The Lancet", "id" : "ITEM–1", "issue" : "8930", "issued" : { "date–parts" : [ [ "1994", "10", "22" ] ] }, "language" : "English", "page" : "1129–1133", "publisher" : "Elsevier", "title" : "Is primary care essential?", "type" : "article–journal", "volume" : "344" }, "uris" : [ "http://www.mendeley.com/documents/?uuid=c80a69d9–7850–4d10–a7e4–7321e6247641" ] } ], "mendeley" : { "formattedCitation" : "(1)", "plainTextFormattedCitation" : "(1)", "previouslyFormattedCitation" : "(1)" }, "properties" : { "noteIndex" : 0 }, "schema" : "https://github.com/citation–style–language/schema/raw/master/csl–citation.json" }(1)

 

Method

Cross–sectional study was used as a primary care assessment tool (PCAT) through direct interviews with directors of primary health–care centers (PHCCs). The PHCCs were studied as groups A (CBAHI–accredited) and B (non–CBAHI–accredited).

 

Results

The total mean of PCAT score for group B (247) was poorer than that for group A (287), with a p–value of 0.100. Most of the statistical variability between the two groups was in the domain (community orientation), with a p–value of 0.083.

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

Most of the non–CBAHI–accredited PHCCs had poorer scores for primary health–care domains when compared with CBAHI–accredited centers, largely because of limited comprehensive care and community orientation. However, we found that the difference of the total PCAT scores between the two groups was statistically insignificant.

The results may raise a question regarding the validity and the impact of CBAHI accreditation on the actual services provided

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ASSESSMENT OF PRIMARY HEALTH-CARE CENTERS IN DAMMAM AND KHOBAR, SAUDI ARABIA. A COMPARISON BETWEEN CBAHI AND NON-CBAHI ACCREDITED CENTERS., Dr. Ali AlMuraikhi, Dr.Fayez AlZahrani INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : Volume-8 | Issue-1 | January-2019

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