Quality of malaria data in public health facilities in three provinces of Mozambique.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria data reported through Mozambique's routine health information system are used to guide the implementation of prevention and control activities. Although previous studies have identified issues with the quality of aggregated data reported from public health facilities in the country, no studies have evaluated the quality of routine indicators recorded in health facility registries. This study addresses this issue by comparing indicators calculated from data from exit interviews and re-examinations of patients with data based on registry records from health facilities in order to measure the quality of registry data and data reporting in three provinces in Mozambique.

Methods

Data were collected from 1,840 outpatients from 117 health facilities in Maputo, Za

SUBMITTER: Colborn JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7170236 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature