Uses of private health provider data for governance in low-income and middle-income countries: results from a scoping review.

Unlabelled: This work grew from an interest in understanding how private data are used for health system governance in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Objective: We conducted a scoping review to understand how the public sector collects routine data from the private health sector and uses it for governance purposes. The private health sector was defined to include both formal and informal, for-profit or non-profit, actors delivering healthcare services.