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Improving the efficiency and standards of a National Immunization Program Review: lessons learnt from United Republic of Tanzania

A National Immunization Program Review (NIP Review) is a comprehensive external assessment of the performance of a country’s immunization programme. The number of recommended special-topic NIP assessments, such as those for vaccine introduction or vaccine management, has increased. These assessments...

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Autores principales: Lyimo, Dafrossa, Kamugisha, Christopher, Yohana, Emmanuel, Eshetu, Messeret, Wallace, Aaron, Ward, Kirsten, Mantel, Carsten, Hennessey, Karen
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5878854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29610647
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.209.10466
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author Lyimo, Dafrossa
Kamugisha, Christopher
Yohana, Emmanuel
Eshetu, Messeret
Wallace, Aaron
Ward, Kirsten
Mantel, Carsten
Hennessey, Karen
author_facet Lyimo, Dafrossa
Kamugisha, Christopher
Yohana, Emmanuel
Eshetu, Messeret
Wallace, Aaron
Ward, Kirsten
Mantel, Carsten
Hennessey, Karen
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description A National Immunization Program Review (NIP Review) is a comprehensive external assessment of the performance of a country’s immunization programme. The number of recommended special-topic NIP assessments, such as those for vaccine introduction or vaccine management, has increased. These assessments often have substantial overlap with NIP reviews, raising concern about duplication. Innovative technical and management approaches, including integrating several assessments into one, were applied in the United Republic of Tanzania’s 2015 NIP Review. These approaches and processes were documented and a post-Review survey and group discussion. The Tanzania Review found that integrating assessments so they can be conducted at one time was feasible and efficient. There are concrete approaches for successfully managing a Review that can be shared and practiced including having a well-planned desk review and nominating topic-leads. The use of tablets for data entry has the potential to improve Review data quality and timely analysis; however, careful team training is needed. A key area to improve was to better coordinate and link findings from the national-level and field teams.
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spelling pubmed-58788542018-04-02 Improving the efficiency and standards of a National Immunization Program Review: lessons learnt from United Republic of Tanzania Lyimo, Dafrossa Kamugisha, Christopher Yohana, Emmanuel Eshetu, Messeret Wallace, Aaron Ward, Kirsten Mantel, Carsten Hennessey, Karen Pan Afr Med J Short Communication A National Immunization Program Review (NIP Review) is a comprehensive external assessment of the performance of a country’s immunization programme. The number of recommended special-topic NIP assessments, such as those for vaccine introduction or vaccine management, has increased. These assessments often have substantial overlap with NIP reviews, raising concern about duplication. Innovative technical and management approaches, including integrating several assessments into one, were applied in the United Republic of Tanzania’s 2015 NIP Review. These approaches and processes were documented and a post-Review survey and group discussion. The Tanzania Review found that integrating assessments so they can be conducted at one time was feasible and efficient. There are concrete approaches for successfully managing a Review that can be shared and practiced including having a well-planned desk review and nominating topic-leads. The use of tablets for data entry has the potential to improve Review data quality and timely analysis; however, careful team training is needed. A key area to improve was to better coordinate and link findings from the national-level and field teams. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5878854/ /pubmed/29610647 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.209.10466 Text en © Dafrossa Lyimo et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Improving the efficiency and standards of a National Immunization Program Review: lessons learnt from United Republic of Tanzania
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29610647
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.28.209.10466
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