Assessment of RHIS Quality Assurance Practices in Tarkwa Submunicipal Health Directorate, Ghana

Boadu, Richard Okyere; Obiri-Yeboah, Judith; Boadu, Kwame Adu Okyere; Mensah, Nathan Kumasenu; Amoh-Agyei, Grace

doi:10.1155/2021/5561943

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“…In addition to ensuring continuous RHIS data quality assurance practices (QAPs), the GHS provided standard operating procedures (SOP) on health information which provides a formalized system to guide data collection, collation, storage, and analysis, reporting and use. The purpose of the SOP is to attain maximum accuracy, completeness, integrity and traceability of all data (including data for malaria indicators) in the GHS and other health programme implementing agencies [ 17 ]. The SOP outline the procedure to manage data to ensure completeness, accuracy and timeliness of data to facilitate decision-making in the service.…”

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Assessment of health staff’s proficiency and quality of key malaria indicators in rural district of Ghana

Boadu

Karimu²,

Boadu³

et al. 2022

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Background Routine Health Information Systems (RHIS) are important for not just sure enough control of malaria, but its elimination as well. If these systems are working, they can extensively provide accurate data on reported malaria cases instead of presenting modelled approximations of malaria burden. Queries are raised on both the quality and use of generated malaria data. Some issues of concern include inaccurate reporting of malaria cases as well as treatment plans, wrongly categorizing malaria cases in registers used to collate data and misplacing data or registers for reporting. This study analyses data quality concerning health staff’s proficiency, timeliness, availability and data accuracy in the Sissala East Municipal Health Directorate (MHD). Methods A cross-sectional design was used to collect data from 15 facilities and 50 health staff members who offered clinical related care for malaria cases in the Sissala East MHD from 24th August 2020 to 17th September 2020. Fifteen health facilities were randomly selected from the 56 health facilities in the municipality that were implementing the malarial control programme, and they were included in the study. Results On the question of when did staff receive any training on malaria-related health information management in the past six months prior to the survey, as minimal as 13 out of 50(26%) claimed to have been trained, whereas the majority 37 out of 50 (74%) had no training. In terms of proficiency in malaria indicators (MI), the majority (68% - 82%) of the respondents could not demonstrate the correct calculations of the indicators. Nevertheless, the MHD recorded monthly average timeliness of the 5th day [range: 4.7–5.7] within the reporting year. However, the MHD had a worse average performance of 5.4th and 5.7th days in July and September respectively. Furthermore, results indicated that 14 out of 15(93.3%) facilities exceeded the target to accomplish report availability (> = 90%) and data completeness (> = 90%). However, the verification factor (VF) of the overall malaria indicator showed that the MHD neither over-reported nor under-reported actual cases, with the corresponding level of data quality as Good (+/-5%). Conclusions The Majority of staff had not received any training on malaria-related RHIS. Some staff members did not know the correct definitions of some of MI used in the malaria programme, while the majority of them could not demonstrate the correct calculations of MI. Timeliness of reporting was below the target, nevertheless, copies of data that were submitted were available and completed. There should be training, supervision and monitoring to enhance staff proficiency and improve the quality of MI.

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confidence: 99%