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Admon AJ, Bazile J, Makungwa H, et al. Assessing and improving data quality from community health workers: a successful intervention in Neno, Malawi. Public Health Action. 2013;3(1):56-59doi: 10.5588/pha.12.0071.
Admon, A. J., Bazile, J., Makungwa, H., Chingoli, M. A., Hirschhorn, L. R., Peckarsky, M., Rigodon, J., Herce, M., Chingoli, F., Malani, P. N., & Hedt-Gauthier, B. L. (2013). Assessing and improving data quality from community health workers: a successful intervention in Neno, Malawi. Public health action, 3(1), 56-59. https://doi.org/10.5588/pha.12.0071
Admon, A J, et al. "Assessing and improving data quality from community health workers: a successful intervention in Neno, Malawi." Public health action vol. 3,1 (2013): 56-59. doi: https://doi.org/10.5588/pha.12.0071
Admon AJ, Bazile J, Makungwa H, Chingoli MA, Hirschhorn LR, Peckarsky M, Rigodon J, Herce M, Chingoli F, Malani PN, Hedt-Gauthier BL. Assessing and improving data quality from community health workers: a successful intervention in Neno, Malawi. Public Health Action. 2013 Mar 21;3(1):56-59. doi: 10.5588/pha.12.0071. PMID: 25767750; PMCID: PMC4354657.
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Public Health Action. 2013 Mar 21;3(1):56-59. doi: 10.5588/pha.12.0071.

Assessing and improving data quality from community health workers: a successful intervention in Neno, Malawi.

Public health action

A J Admon, J Bazile, H Makungwa, M A Chingoli, L R Hirschhorn, M Peckarsky, J Rigodon, M Herce, F Chingoli, P N Malani, B L Hedt-Gauthier

Affiliations

  1. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
  2. Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ; Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi.
  3. Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi.
  4. Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA ; Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
  5. Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
  6. Ministry of Health, Neno District, Malawi.
  7. Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA ; Veterans Affairs Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
  8. Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

PMID: 25767750 PMCID: PMC4354657 DOI: 10.5588/pha.12.0071

Abstract

SETTING: A community health worker (CHW) program was established in Neno District, Malawi, in 2007 by Partners In Health in support of Ministry of Health activities. Routinely generated CHW data provide critical information for program monitoring and evaluation. Informal assessments of the CHW reports indicated poor quality, limiting the usefulness of the data.

OBJECTIVES: 1) To establish the quality of aggregated measures contained in CHW reports; 2) to develop interventions to address poor data quality; and 3) to evaluate changes in data quality following the intervention.

DESIGN: We developed a lot quality assurance sampling-based data quality assessment tool to identify sites with high or low reporting quality. Following the first assessment, we identified challenges and best practices and followed the interventions with two subsequent assessments.

RESULTS: At baseline, four of five areas were classified as low data quality. After 8 months, all five areas had achieved high data quality, and the reports generated from our electronic database became consistent and plausible.

CONCLUSION: Program changes included improving the usability of the reporting forms, shifting aggregation responsibility to designated assistants and providing aggregation support tools. Local quality assessments and targeted interventions resulted in immediate improvements in data quality.

Keywords: lot quality assurance sampling; quality improvement; supervision

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