Monday, July 1, 2019

A WEB BASED ROUTINE DATA QUALITY ASSESSMENT (RDQA) TOOL FOR UPSCALLING HIV DATA AUDIT AND MANAGEMENT FOR SIAYA COUNTY HEALTH FACILITIES



Name: George Odhiambo Okoth
Registration No: W82/89456/2016
Fellowship Track: Health Informatics
Participating Local Partner (PLP): Siaya County Health Department
 


ABSTRACT

The project provides for an enhanced user oriented Random Data Quality Assurance (RDQA) tool .It forms a valuable monitoring and evaluation tool that should be used to elucidate the national information system strengths, and determine country specific data quality issues that require to be addressed at each level. Its aim is to encourage and support implementation of the County EMR in order to ensure good, robust and reliable quality health data are produced from the health facilities. This RDQA tool provides an enhanced way of working with health data and assuring data quality or planning and decision making. For this reason, the tool will aid Data Quality Assurance processes for facility, sub-county, county, project/ programme, national managers and planners to determine whether the type, quantity, and quality of health data needed to support sector decisions have been achieved. The tool is the culmination of experiences and lessons learnt in the design, implementation and statistical analyses and use of health data over time. The tool is intended to be updated and used periodically by all to verify the quality of data and employ interventions to correct existing procedures and practices that would lead to good data quality. The DQA Tool  focuses exclusively on  (1) verifying the quality  of reported data, and (2) assessing the underlying data management and reporting systems for standard program-level output indicators. The DQA Tool is not intended to assess the entire. M&E system of a countrys response to HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis or Malaria. In the context of HIV/AIDS, the DQA relates to component 10 (i.e. Supportive supervision and data auditing) of theOrganizing Framework fora Functional National HIV M&E System”.

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