Using electronic technology to improve clinical care - Results from a before-after cluster trial to evaluate assessment and classification of sick children according to Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) protocol in Tanzania

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Mitchell, Marc ^a,b   Hedt Gauthier, Bethany L ^b,c   Msellemu, Daniel ^d   Nkaka, Melania ^e   Lesh, Neal ^f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b D Tree International   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^e D tree International   (Tanzania)

^f DIMAGI INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HUMAN; INFANT; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZATION; STANDARD; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TANZANIA; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; HUMANS; INFANT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SYMPTOM ASSESSMENT; TANZANIA;

EID: 84883087271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6947-13-95     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. The impact of eHealth on the quality and safety of health care: a systematic overview. Black AD, Car J, Pagliari C, Anandan C, Cresswell K, Bokun T, et al. PLoS Med 2011 8 1 1000387 PMID: 21267058 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000387 21267058
2. World Health Organization (WHO), mHealth: new horizons for health through mobile technologies: second global survey on eHealth 2011 http://www.who.int/ goe/publications/goe-mhealth-web.pdf
3. Mobile Phone Text Messaging: Tool for Malaria Control in Africa. Zurovac D, Talisuna AO, Snow RW, PLoS Med 2012 9 2 1001176 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001176 22363212
4. Improving antimicrobial use among health workers in first-level facilities: results from the multi-country Evaluation of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy. Gouws E, Bryce J, Habicht JP, Amaral J, Pariyo G, Schellenberg JA, et al. Bull World Health Organ 2004 82 7 509 515 PMID: 15508195 15508195 (Pubitemid 38969444)
5. The multi-country evaluation of the integrated management of childhood illness strategy: lessons for the evaluation of public health interventions. Bryce J, Victora CG, Habicht JP, Vaughan JP, Black RE, Am J Public Health 2004 94 3 406 415 PMID: 14998804 10.2105/AJPH.94.3.406 14998804 (Pubitemid 38269493)
6. Improving quality and efficiency of facility-based child health care through Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Tanzania. Bryce J, Gouws E, Adam T, Black RE, Schellenberg JA, Manzi F, et al. Health Policy Plan 2005 20 Suppl 1 69 i76 PMID: 16306072 10.1093/heapol/czi053 16306072 (Pubitemid 41752457)
7. The effect of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness on observed quality of care of under-fives in rural Tanzania. Tanzania IMCI Multi-Country Evaluation Health Facility Survey Study Group, Health Policy Plan 2004 19 1 1 10 14679280
8. A multifaceted intervention to improve health worker adherence to integrated management of childhood illness guidelines in Benin. Rowe AK, Onikpo F, Lama M, Osterholt DM, Rowe SY, Deming MS, Am J Public Health 2009 99 5 837 846 PMID: 19299681 10.2105/AJPH.2008.134411 19299681
9. National implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI): policy constraints and strategies. Ahmed HM, Mitchell M, Hedt B, Health Policy 2010 6 2 128 133 PMID: 17223476 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.01.013
10. Why first-level health workers fail to follow guidelines for managing severe disease in children in the Coast Region, the United Republic of Tanzania. Walter ND, Lyimo T, Skarbinski J, Metta E, Kahigwa E, Flannery B, et al. Bull World Health Organ 2009 87 2 99 107 PMID: 19274361 10.2471/BLT.08.050740 19274361
11. Improvement of maternal health services through the use of mobile phones. Kuepper BM, Stekelenburg J, Milen A, Trop Med Int Health 2011 16 622 626 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2011.02747.x 21342374
12. Effects of a mobile phone short message service on antiretroviral treatment adherence in Kenya (WelTel Kenya1): a randomised trial. Lester RT, Ritvo P, Mills EJ, Kariri A, Karanja S, Chung MH, et al. Lancet 2010 376 9755 1838 1845 10.1016/S0140-6736(10)61997-6 21071074
13. National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) [Tanzania] and ICF Macro, Tanzania Demographic and Health Survey 2010 Dar es Salaam: NBS and ICF Macro 2011
14. DeRenzi B, Lesh N, Parikh TS, Sims C, Mitchell M, Maokola W, et al. e- IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-income Countries Florence, Italy: Presented at the ACM Conference on Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) 2008 5 10 http://homes.cs.washington.edu/∼bderenzi/Papers/chi1104-bderenzi.pdf
15. Prosper H, Macha J, Borghi J, Implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in Tanzania: successes and challenges Dar es Salaam: Consortium for Research on Equitable Health Systems and Ifakara Health Institute 2009 Online at: http://www.crehs.lshtm.ac.uk/downloads/publications/ Implementation-of-IMCI-in-Tanzania.pdf
16. WHO and UNICEF Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Booklet (Accessed 25 March 2013) http://whqlibdoc.who.int/publications/2008/ 9789241597289-eng.pdf
17. Where and why are 10 million children dying every year? Black RE, Morris SS, Bryce J, Lancet 2003 361 9376 2226 2234 PMID: 12842379 10.1016/S0140- 6736(03)13779-8 12842379 (Pubitemid 36782560)
18. Perceived improvement in Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) implementation through use of mobile technology: qualitative evidence from a pilot study in Tanzania. Mitchell M, Getchell M, Nkaka M, Msellemu D, van Esch J, Hedt B, J Health Commun 2012 17 Supplement 1 118 127 22548605
19. World Health Organization (WHO), Working together for health: the world health report 2006 Geneva: World Health Organization 2006 Online at: http://www.who.int/whr/2006/whr06-en.pdf
20. The impact of computerized physician order entry on medication error prevention. Bates DW, Teich JM, Lee J, Seger D, Kuperman GJ, Ma'Luf N, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc 1999 6 4 313 321 PMID: 10428004 10.1136/jamia.1999.00660313 10428004 (Pubitemid 29328569)
21. Improving care-improving access: the use of electronic decision support with AIDS patients in South Africa. Mitchell M, Lesh N, Cranmer H, Fraser H, Haivas I, et al. Int J Healthc Technol Manage 2009 10 3 156 168 10.1504/IJHTM.2009.025819