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In 2010 and during the following decade, two guidelines werepublished for the management of prostate cancer in West Africa.A key recommendation of the guidelines was the need for thedevelopment of a Clinical Audit Tool which should helpsurgeons and institutions to identify the gaps between therecommended standards and current practice. In this paper, aClinical Audit Tool, WAPCAT, was developed to facilitate andimplement the audit process for the management of Prostatecancer in a West African healthcare institution
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Humans , Prostatic Neoplasms , Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities , Reference Standards , Software , Clinical AuditABSTRACT
Background:The amount of information at the medical field has been growing day by day. Also new medical articles about the preoccupied disease are published each day and the updated information is very required for physicians. Consequently,the appropriate information in the appropriate moment is very suitable for physicians, and this is the challenge contributed in this research work. Methods:Our goal is to recommend documents deemed relevant to doctors, moreover, regarding the context of using of an Electronic Medical RecordsEMR. The principle is to extract the context of this usage: illness, Age ..., searching on the contents of documents and taking into account the rate of vote documents. For experiment and evaluation, we have used 100 articles randomly selected from PUBMEDabout cardiology. In addition, we have developed a system that extracts the context of EMRat the moment of exploration. The extracted context is used with users rating bythe recommender system to select and rank the recommended articles for physicians in the same moment of use.Results:The first result of this research work is the smart interaction between users and the software system by introducing the context of use. In addition, another important result is the reuse of user's appreciation for additional dynamicity and intelligibility. Conclusion: The developed system offers the physician an appropriate recommendation of pertinent PUBMED articles. The developed system augments the relevancy of the recommendation by analyzing the contents of the articles and introducing a collaborative method
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Access to Information , Algeria , Consumer Health Information , SoftwareABSTRACT
The District Health Information System (DHIS) software from the Health Information System Programme (HISP) based in South Africa is widely implemented in many developing countries as a health data analysis tool. Through the HISP Tanzania project; the DHIS was piloted in five districts in Tanzania. The objective of this study was to qualify and quantify the extent to which district health workers consider the adaptation of the DHIS software to the needs of the routine health management information system. In a period of 14 months (from June 2003 to August 2004) data were collected from health workers trained to use the software through a triangulation of various qualitative data collection techniques including interview; questionnaire; participant observations and retrospective testing. The software was evaluated in terms of reliability; usability and user satisfaction. In general the reliability of the software was rated high but its usability was rated to be low. The software was found not to accommodate some health data from various health programmes and there was a mismatch between the implemented online data entry forms/reports and their respective paper-based forms/reports. The study recommends improved design of the DHIS user interface (forms) and reports to replicate the paper-based forms in order to assure usability and reduce the incidences and impact of human errors in the keying-in of health data