Improving quality of medical certification of causes of death in health facilities in Tanzania 2014-2019.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring medically certified causes of death is essential to shape national health policies, track progress to Sustainable Development Goals, and gauge responses to epidemic and pandemic disease. The combination of electronic health information systems with new methods for data quality monitoring can facilitate quality assessments and help target quality improvement. Since 2015, Tanzania has been upgrading its Civil Registration and Vital Statistics system including efforts to improve the availability and quality of mortality data.

Methods

We used a computer application (ANACONDA v4.01) to assess the quality of medical certification of cause of death (MCCD) and ICD-10 coding for the underlying cause of death for 155,461 deaths from health facilities from 2014 to

SUBMITTER: Nyondo T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8436444 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature