title: Evaluation of rural ambulance services.
abstract: The evaluation of ambulance services in a rural area of South Africa is described. The approach is affordable and could be applied in other countries. As well as providing valuable information it involves health workers in planning, motivates them to improve service delivery, and lends support to their requests for increased resources.
authors.affiliation: Department of Community Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. doherty@wn.apc.org
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doherty
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Price
mesh_terms: D000552:Ambulances; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003625:Data Collection / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D019035:Rural Health Services; D013019:South Africa