Cargando…
Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community
Population mobility makes patient-tracking and care linkage in the South African Development Community (SADC) challenging. Case-based surveillance (CBS) through individual-level clinical data linked with a unique patient-identifier (UPI) is recommended. We conducted a mixed-methods landscape analysi...
Autores principales: | , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
2023
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36601790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14604582221139058 |
_version_ | 1785066725993086976 |
---|---|
author | Govender, Kerensa Long, Lawrence Miot, Jacqui |
author_facet | Govender, Kerensa Long, Lawrence Miot, Jacqui |
author_sort | Govender, Kerensa |
collection | PubMed |
description | Population mobility makes patient-tracking and care linkage in the South African Development Community (SADC) challenging. Case-based surveillance (CBS) through individual-level clinical data linked with a unique patient-identifier (UPI) is recommended. We conducted a mixed-methods landscape analysis of UPI and CBS implementation within selected SADC countries, this included: (1) SADC UPI implementation literature review; (2) assessment of UPI and CBS implementation for high HIV-prevalence SADC countries; (3) UPI implementation case-study in selected South African primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. Research into CBS and UPI implementation for the SADC region is lacking. Existing patient-identification methods often fail and limit patient-tracking. Paper-based records and poor integration between health-information systems further restrict patient-tracking. Most countries were in the early-middle stages of CBS and faced UPI challenges. Our South African case-study found that the UPI often goes uncaptured. Difficulties tracking patients across prevention and care cascades will continue until a functional and reliable UPI is available. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-10311353 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2023 |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-103113532023-06-30 Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community Govender, Kerensa Long, Lawrence Miot, Jacqui Health Informatics J Article Population mobility makes patient-tracking and care linkage in the South African Development Community (SADC) challenging. Case-based surveillance (CBS) through individual-level clinical data linked with a unique patient-identifier (UPI) is recommended. We conducted a mixed-methods landscape analysis of UPI and CBS implementation within selected SADC countries, this included: (1) SADC UPI implementation literature review; (2) assessment of UPI and CBS implementation for high HIV-prevalence SADC countries; (3) UPI implementation case-study in selected South African primary healthcare (PHC) facilities. Research into CBS and UPI implementation for the SADC region is lacking. Existing patient-identification methods often fail and limit patient-tracking. Paper-based records and poor integration between health-information systems further restrict patient-tracking. Most countries were in the early-middle stages of CBS and faced UPI challenges. Our South African case-study found that the UPI often goes uncaptured. Difficulties tracking patients across prevention and care cascades will continue until a functional and reliable UPI is available. 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10311353/ /pubmed/36601790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14604582221139058 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Creative Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Article Govender, Kerensa Long, Lawrence Miot, Jacqui Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community |
title | Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community |
title_full | Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community |
title_fullStr | Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community |
title_full_unstemmed | Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community |
title_short | Progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the Southern African development community |
title_sort | progress towards unique patient identification and case-based surveillance within the southern african development community |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10311353/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36601790 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14604582221139058 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT govenderkerensa progresstowardsuniquepatientidentificationandcasebasedsurveillancewithinthesouthernafricandevelopmentcommunity AT longlawrence progresstowardsuniquepatientidentificationandcasebasedsurveillancewithinthesouthernafricandevelopmentcommunity AT miotjacqui progresstowardsuniquepatientidentificationandcasebasedsurveillancewithinthesouthernafricandevelopmentcommunity |