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Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021
INTRODUCTION: timely and complete reporting of routine public health information about diseases and public health events are important aspects of a robust surveillance system. Although data on the completeness and timeliness of monthly surveillance data are collected in the District Health Informati...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620326/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37928222 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.46.3.40557 |
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author | Zavuga, Robert Migisha, Richard Gonahasa, Doreen Nsiimire Kadobera, Daniel Kwesiga, Benon Okello, Paul Edward Bulage, Lilian Aceng, Freda Loy Kayiwa, Joshua Makumbi, Issa Ario, Alex Riolexus |
author_facet | Zavuga, Robert Migisha, Richard Gonahasa, Doreen Nsiimire Kadobera, Daniel Kwesiga, Benon Okello, Paul Edward Bulage, Lilian Aceng, Freda Loy Kayiwa, Joshua Makumbi, Issa Ario, Alex Riolexus |
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description | INTRODUCTION: timely and complete reporting of routine public health information about diseases and public health events are important aspects of a robust surveillance system. Although data on the completeness and timeliness of monthly surveillance data are collected in the District Health Information System-2 (DHIS2), they have not been routinely analyzed. We assessed completeness and timeliness of monthly outpatient department (OPD) data, January 2020-December 2021. METHODS: we analyzed secondary data from all the 15 regions and 146 districts of Uganda. Completeness was defined as the number of submitted reports divided by the number of expected reports. Timeliness was defined as the number of reports submitted by the deadline (15(th) day of the following month) divided by reports received. Completeness or timeliness score of <80% was regarded incomplete or untimely. RESULTS: overall, there was good general performance with the median completeness being high in 2020 (99.5%; IQR 97.8-100%) and 2021 (100%; IQR 98.7-100%), as was the median timeliness (2020; 82.8%, IQR 74.6-91.8%; 2021, 94.9%, IQR 86.5-99.1%). Kampala Region was the only region that consistently failed to reach ≥ 80% OPD timeliness (2020: 44%; 2021: 65%). Nakasongola was the only district that consistently performed poorly in the submission of timely reports in both years (2020: 54.4%, 2021: 58.3%). CONCLUSION: there was an overall good performance in the submission of complete and timely monthly OPD reports in most districts and regions in Uganda. There is a need to strengthen the good reporting practices exhibited and offer support to regions, districts, and health facilities with timeliness challenges. |
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spelling | pubmed-106203262023-11-03 Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021 Zavuga, Robert Migisha, Richard Gonahasa, Doreen Nsiimire Kadobera, Daniel Kwesiga, Benon Okello, Paul Edward Bulage, Lilian Aceng, Freda Loy Kayiwa, Joshua Makumbi, Issa Ario, Alex Riolexus Pan Afr Med J Research INTRODUCTION: timely and complete reporting of routine public health information about diseases and public health events are important aspects of a robust surveillance system. Although data on the completeness and timeliness of monthly surveillance data are collected in the District Health Information System-2 (DHIS2), they have not been routinely analyzed. We assessed completeness and timeliness of monthly outpatient department (OPD) data, January 2020-December 2021. METHODS: we analyzed secondary data from all the 15 regions and 146 districts of Uganda. Completeness was defined as the number of submitted reports divided by the number of expected reports. Timeliness was defined as the number of reports submitted by the deadline (15(th) day of the following month) divided by reports received. Completeness or timeliness score of <80% was regarded incomplete or untimely. RESULTS: overall, there was good general performance with the median completeness being high in 2020 (99.5%; IQR 97.8-100%) and 2021 (100%; IQR 98.7-100%), as was the median timeliness (2020; 82.8%, IQR 74.6-91.8%; 2021, 94.9%, IQR 86.5-99.1%). Kampala Region was the only region that consistently failed to reach ≥ 80% OPD timeliness (2020: 44%; 2021: 65%). Nakasongola was the only district that consistently performed poorly in the submission of timely reports in both years (2020: 54.4%, 2021: 58.3%). CONCLUSION: there was an overall good performance in the submission of complete and timely monthly OPD reports in most districts and regions in Uganda. There is a need to strengthen the good reporting practices exhibited and offer support to regions, districts, and health facilities with timeliness challenges. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2023-09-06 /pmc/articles/PMC10620326/ /pubmed/37928222 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.46.3.40557 Text en Copyright: Robert Zavuga et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Zavuga, Robert Migisha, Richard Gonahasa, Doreen Nsiimire Kadobera, Daniel Kwesiga, Benon Okello, Paul Edward Bulage, Lilian Aceng, Freda Loy Kayiwa, Joshua Makumbi, Issa Ario, Alex Riolexus Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021 |
title | Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021 |
title_full | Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021 |
title_fullStr | Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021 |
title_full_unstemmed | Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021 |
title_short | Timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, Uganda, 2020-2021 |
title_sort | timeliness and completeness of monthly disease surveillance data reporting, uganda, 2020-2021 |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10620326/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37928222 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2023.46.3.40557 |
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