INDICATORS

Quality Domain:

Access

Sub-Domain:

Accessibility

Definition:

Pain management is available to all clients, and not dependent on economic status.

Purpose:

Quality abortion care requires access to pain management, regardless of ability to pay, in order to ensure equity in abortion provision.

Indicator Applicability:

Health Facilities

Justification for Inclusion:

Statistical association with client outcomes

Quality Threshold:

A point of service is considered as meeting this indicator’s quality threshold if 100% of clients report that pain management was available to them, regardless of their economic status.

Data Source:

• For health facilities offering surgical abortion or medical abortion in cases in which clients plan to pass the pregnancy inside the facility: Health Facility Client Exit Interview questions HF113 and HF114

Details:

For health facilities, the proportion of clients who received a surgical abortion or who passed a medical abortion in the facility who answered with the following response pattern:

1. Response option 1 to question HF113
2. Response option 1 to question HF114