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Suhavna Khalawan, Dr Jodi Wishnia, Adv Anele Ngidi | August 2023 There are various recommendations made by the South African Law Reform Commission (SALRC) to resolve issues in the medico-legal context, but there is no [...]

Dr Nafisa Khan and Tahmeed Omar | October 2023 In 2021, Percept and the Western Cape Department of Health and Wellness launched a telehealth pilot intervention to support people living with poorly controlled diabetes. The [...]

Image source: DataDrive2030 Dr Beth Vale, Michelle Flowers, Dr Jessica Ronaasen, and Maryke Rademeyer | September 2023 DataDrive2030’s Positive Deviance Initiative aims to identify and explore factors associated with ‘positive deviance’ in Early Childhood Development [...]

Image source: DataDrive2030 DataDrive2030, Percept, and others | July 2023 The limited availability of metadata in Early Childhood Development (ECD) settings prompted the creation and utilisation of DataDrive2030's first meta-dataset. Applying an asset-based Positive Deviance [...]

Percept and Leapfrog to Value | June 2023 This report details the results of a survey of what 360 South African mothers valued across the entire maternal episode. The questionnaire focused on what mattered to [...]

Percept and Leapfrog to Value | June 2023 The maternity care pathway – including antenatal, birthing, postpartum and neonatal care – is a critical predictor for women, infant and child health. By implication, it also shapes [...]

  Percept | May 2023 This third brief explores examples of PROMs being used for different diseases, and periods of care. It further explores the different outcome measures introduced in the previous brief while placing [...]

  Percept | May 2023 This second brief of the series delivers a starting point to implement patient-reported measures. Design principles and considerations, as well as the challenges they may give rise to, are further [...]

  Percept | May 2023 This brief explores the purpose (the “why”) behind the measurement of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs) and describes the tools (the “what”) that are available. The intended audience, and the beneficiaries (the [...]

Percept | May 2023 Gendered and unequal patterns of giving, receiving, and seeking care are significant features of South Africa’s inequality. Caring processes show up the uneven way financial and decision-making powers are spread across [...]

  Percept | January 2023 The utility and feasibility of diagnosis-related groupers for South Africa’s public health sector Part one provides context and background to DRGs, explaining how they are used and offers some insight [...]

  Percept | January 2023 Patient classification and case mix in primary healthcare South Africa plans to move to clinical coding across its health system as part of the NHI. Part two explores the value [...]