Abstract:
This descriptive study intended to study providers opinions on quality indicators for curative care in primary care units (PCUs) of Thailand under the national health security scheme, which respect to importance and practicality, During September to December 2005, questionnaires were used to collect data from 304 PCUs representatives from nine provinces, throughout the country, the response rate was 86.5 percent (263 out of 304). The indicators which were rated the highest regarding validity and relevance, reliability, absence from data manipulation and universal acceptability was the percentage of the new and old cases of DM whose fasting blood sugar each time to meet a physician. The percentage of TB patients cured case of TB, the percentage of the out patients department of diarrhea treated with ORS. Received the highest score with respect to affordability. Overall, the indicators which received above average rating in all of the five dimensions included the percentage of new case of hypertension evaluated and recorded in OPD cards and profile, the percentage of the new case of DM patients evaluated and recorded in OPD cards and profile, the percentage of the new and old cases of DM whose fasting blood sugar each time to meet a physician, the percentage of every case of TB patients treated with medicines under directly observed therapeutic shot course (DOTS), the percentage of noncompliance TB patients follow up by letter, telephone or home visit as appropriate, the percentage of TB patients completely treated case of TB, the percentage of TB patients cured case of TB, the percentage of the out patients department of diarrhea treated with ORS. When reliability was explored in particular, difference was found between hospital-based PCUs and health-center-based PCUs. (p<0.05) was found seven indicators. The most common suggestions from the providers included that there wash a good data collection system; the service provider are confused on the principle of the quality indicators; and they could not make any connection between data from the data sources and their indicators. The suggestion show that there should be a study on factor supporting the knowledge and understanding development of service providers about the data collection network system which used to answer the quality indicators for curative care services in order to help the service quality development to be valid and go in the same direction