Assessment of facility-based tuberculosis data quality in an integrated HIV/TB database in three South African districts.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessment of data quality is essential to successful monitoring & evaluation of tuberculosis (TB) services. South Africa uses the Three Interlinked Electronic Register (TIER.Net) to monitor TB diagnoses and treatment outcomes. We assessed the quality of routine programmatic data as captured in TIER.Net.

Methods

We reviewed 277 records from routine data collected for adults who had started TB treatment for drug-sensitive (DS-) TB between 10/2018-12/2019 from 15 facilities across three South African districts using three sources and three approaches to link these (i.e., two approaches compared TIER.NET with the TB Treatment Record while the third approach compared all three sources of TB data: the TB treatment record or patient medical file; the TB Identification R

SUBMITTER: Murphy JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10021242 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature