Human factors affecting the quality of routinely collected data in South Africa

Studies in Health Technology and Informatics

Volumn 192, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 788-792

  Nicol, Edward ^a,b   Bradshaw, Debbie ^a   Phillips, Tamsin ^a   Dudley, Lilian ^b  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

behavioural factors; competence level; data quality; District Health Information System (DHIS); human resource for health informatics; Performance of routine information systems management (PRISM) tools; routine health information system (RHIS)

Indexed keywords

HEALTH; HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE; PRISMS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BEHAVIOURAL FACTORS; COMPETENCE LEVEL; DATA QUALITY; HEALTH INFORMATICS; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; ROUTINE HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEM;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER INTERFACE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; SOUTH AFRICA; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COMPUTER LITERACY; HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; SOUTH AFRICA; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84894338127     PISSN: 09269630     EISSN: 18798365     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-289-9-788     Document Type: Conference Paper

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