Electronic medical record systems, data quality and loss to follow-up: Survey of antiretroviral therapy programmes in resource-limited settings

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 939-947

  Forster, Mathieu ^a   Bailey, Christopher ^b   Brinkhof, Martin W G ^a   Graber, Claire ^a   Boulle, Andrew ^c   Spohr, Mark ^b   Balestre, Eric ^d   May, Margaret ^e   Keiser, Olivia ^a   Jahnf, Andreas ^f   Eggera, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f KAMUZU CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

DATA QUALITY; DISEASE TREATMENT; HEALTH SURVEY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORD; SOFTWARE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 57149111224     PISSN: 00429686     EISSN: 15640604     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2471/BLT.07.049908     Document Type: Article

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