How accurate are medical record data in Afghanistan's maternal health facilities? An observational validity study.

ABSTRACT: Improvement activities, surveillance and research in maternal and neonatal health in Afghanistan rely heavily on medical record data. This study investigates accuracy in delivery care records from three hospitals across workshifts. Observational cross-sectional study. The study was conducted in one maternity hospital, one general hospital maternity department and one provincial hospital maternity department. Researchers observed vaginal deliveries and recorded observations to later check against data recorded in patient medical records and facility registers. We determined the sensitivity, specificity, area under the receiver operator characteristics curves (AUROCs), proportions correctly classified and the tendency to make performance seem better than it actually was. 600 observations acr

SUBMITTER: Broughton EI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641480 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature