Improving imperfect data from health management information systems in Africa using space-time geostatistics

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 0825-0831

  Gething, Peter W ^a   Noor, Abdisalan M ^b   Gikandi, Priscilla W ^b   Ogara, Esther A A ^c   Hay, Simon I ^b,d   Nixon, Mark S ^a   Snow, Robert W ^b,d   Atkinson, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; KENYA; MALARIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; OUTPATIENT; VALIDATION STUDY; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL INFORMATICS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

AFRICA; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS, MANAGEMENT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH FACILITY ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; MALARIA; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PUBLIC HEALTH INFORMATICS; REGIONAL MEDICAL PROGRAMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33745595596     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030271     Document Type: Article

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