Development of a data collection and management system in West Africa: challenges and sustainability.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Developing and sustaining a data collection and management system (DCMS) is difficult in malaria-endemic countries because of limitations in internet bandwidth, computer resources and numbers of trained personnel. The premise of this paper is that development of a DCMS in West Africa was a critically important outcome of the West African International Centers of Excellence for Malaria Research. The purposes of this paper are to make that information available to other investigators and to encourage the linkage of DCMSs to international research and Ministry of Health data systems and repositories.

Methods

We designed and implemented a DCMS to link study sites in Mali, Senegal and The Gambia. This system was based on case report forms for epidemiologic, entomologic

SUBMITTER: Shaffer JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6292095 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature