Coaching visits and supportive supervision for primary care facilities to improve malaria service data quality in Ghana
An intervention case study
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 19590908 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Amos Asiedu (0009-0001-8584-7352, autor de correspondencia), Rachel A Haws (0000-0003-2887-8571, Johns Hopkins University, autor de correspondencia), Wahjib Mohammed (Ghana Health Service, autor de correspondencia), Joseph Boye-Doe, Joseph Tei Boye-Doe (autor de correspondencia), Charles Agblanya (autor de correspondencia), Raphael Ntumy (autor de correspondencia), Keziah Malm (0000-0003-0190-0820, Ghana Health Service, autor de correspondencia), Paul Boateng (Ghana Health Service, autor de correspondencia), Gladys Tetteh (Philip Morris International (United States), autor de correspondencia), Lolade Oseni (Philip Morris International (United States), autor de correspondencia) |
| Editores | Henry Surendra (0000-0002-6029-0623) |
| Año | 2025 |
| Volumen | 5 |
| Número | 6 |
| Páginas | e0003649 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2025-06-06 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | PLOS Global Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 2767-3375 • E-ISSN: 2767-3375 |
| Editorial | Public Library of Science (PLoS) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pgph.0003649 |
| PMID | 40478884 |
| OpenAlex | W4411087070 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 2 |
| Referencias citadas | 30 |
Effective decision-making for malaria prevention and control depends on timely, accurate, and appropriately analyzed and interpreted data. Poor quality data reported into national health management information systems (HMIS) prevent managers at the district level from planning effectively for malaria in Ghana. We analyzed reports from a series of 3 data coaching visits conducted at 231 health facilities in six of Ghana’s 16 regions between February and November 2021. The visits targeted health workers’ knowledge and skills in malaria data recording, HMIS reporting, and how managers visualized and used HMIS data for planning and decision making. A before-after design was used to assess how data coaching visits affected data documentation practices and compliance with standards of practice, quality and completeness of national HMIS data, and use of facility-based malaria indicator wall charts for decision-making at health facilities. The percentage of health workers demonstrating good understanding of standards of practice in documentation, reporting and data use increased from 72 to 83% (p
Business · Coaching · Data quality · Documentation · Environmental health · Family medicine · Malaria · Operations management · Quality management · Computer Science · Data-Driven Disease Surveillance · Engineering · Global Maternal and Child Health · Malaria Research and Control · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Marketing
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| Obras citantes distintas | 2 |
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| Citas por año | 2 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 2 |