Global progress toward universal health coverage requires expanding access to high quality essential health services. A key component of quality of health services is client experience, which encompasses the consumer perspective of receiving care. Although globally prioritized as an evaluation criterium for health systems and programs, no unified or regularly implemented approach has emerged for measuring client experience of care. This rapid review examines how client experience has been measured in the research literature in low- and middle-income countries for primary care, malaria, HIV, and sexual and reproductive health. Overall, we identified no unified approach to measuring client experience of care across health areas. Within health areas, measures were rarely used consistently across studies. Many measures were not practical for routine monitoring or lacked evidence of validity. This review indicates a clear need to develop, validate, and deploy a measurement approach for client experience that can be used across health areas and delivery channels in low- and middle-income countries. The development and validation of client experience measures that can be used more broadly across programs will be critical to monitoring and improving quality of care as we deepen our understanding of consumer-powered healthcare and make progress toward universal health coverage.
Measuring client experience of care: a strategic evidence rapid review

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- Resource Types: Data, Quantitative, Reports and Briefs
- Languages: English
- Population Served: General Population, Men at High Risk for HIV, People Living with HIV, Pregnant Women, Providers, Women, Women at High Risk for HIV, Women of Reproductive Age
- Practice Areas: HIV & TB, Malaria, Maternal Health, Primary Care, Safe Abortion, Sexual & Reproductive Health
- Year: 2021
- Solutions: Antiretroviral Treatment (ART), HIV Prevention, HIV Testing Services, Intra-Uterine Device (IUD), Male Condom, Medical Abortion, Oral Contraception, Preventing Mother-To-Child-Transmission of HIV (PMTCT), Safe Pregnancy and Childbirth, Short-Term Contraception