Lessons learned from over a decade of data audits in international observational HIV cohorts in Latin America and East Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Routine patient care data are increasingly used for biomedical research, but such "secondary use" data have known limitations, including their quality. When leveraging routine care data for observational research, developing audit protocols that can maximize informational return and minimize costs is paramount.

Methods

For more than a decade, the Latin America and East Africa regions of the International epidemiology Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) consortium have been auditing the observational data drawn from participating human immunodeficiency virus clinics. Since our earliest audits, where external auditors used paper forms to record audit findings from paper medical records, we have streamlined our protocols to obtain more efficient and informative audi

SUBMITTER: Lotspeich SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10685260 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature