Evaluating patient data quality in South Africa’s National Health Laboratory Service Data Warehouse, 2017-2020
Implications for monitoring child health programmes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15380425 |
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| Authors | Lebohang Radebe (0000-0003-3184-9165, Perinatal HIV Research Unit, corresponding author), Ahmad Haeri Mazanderani (0000-0001-7644-153X, National Health Laboratory Service), Gayle Sherman (0000-0003-3208-5216, National Health Laboratory Service), Gayle G Sherman |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1266-1266 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | BMC Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-2458 • E-ISSN: 1471-2458 |
| Publisher | BioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-022-13508-y |
| PMID | 35768861 |
| OpenAlex | W4283706520 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
Unavailability and poor capturing of patient demographics, especially among infants and children, affects the ability to accurately monitor routine health programmes. A unique national patient identifier, other than the national ID number, is urgently required and must be available at birth if South Africa is to accurately monitor programmes such as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Biostatistics · Descriptive statistics · Environmental health · Family medicine · Public health · Quartile · Statistics · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Demography · Ethics in Clinical Research · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Nursing · Internal Medicine · Pediatrics
| Highly cited | No |
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