Patient Identification and Hospital Information Management Systems in Sub-Saharan Africa: a Prospective Study in Rwanda and Burundi
Rwanda med. j. (Online)
; 69(4): 7-12, 2012.
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in En
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| ID: biblio-1269585
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ABSTRACT
For many sub-Saharan health facilities; accurate patient identification remains a challenge. Poor national person identification systems; inefficient identification procedures; the use of weak search criteria and sometimes fraudulent practice consist some of the underlying causes. In this study; patient identification effectiveness has been compared between 27 sub-Saharan hospitals using paper based procedures and 6 health facilities in the same region that had implemented a hospital information management system. Based on a simple metric; results show a significant (p0.001) improvement reducing identification errors from 64.6 before to 2.3 after information system implementation in a sample of 1 private and 5 public hospitals in Rwanda and Burundi
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Main subject:
Patient Admission
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Management Information Systems
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Hospital Information Systems
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Fraud
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Management Audit
Type of study:
Observational_studies
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Prognostic_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
Rwanda med. j. (Online)
Year:
2012
type:
Article