A comparison of data captured at point of care versus data captured retrospectively

Gerald Douglas; Michael McKay; Mwatha Bwanali; Oliver Gadabu; Soyapi Mumba; Alex Gondwe

A comparison of data captured at point of care versus data captured retrospectively

AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2008 Nov 6:934.

Authors

Gerald Douglas¹, Michael McKay, Mwatha Bwanali, Oliver Gadabu, Soyapi Mumba, Alex Gondwe

Affiliation

¹ Baobab Health Partnership, Lilongwe, Malawi; Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

PMID: 18999092

Abstract

Electronic data systems are being implemented in resource-poor HIV clinics to track and improve patient care. The great majority of these systems rely on paper forms and retrospective data entry, while a few have chosen to deploy point-of-care systems to collect data in real time. This study describes a comparison of data quality between these two approaches.

Publication types

Comparative Study

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Artificial Intelligence
HIV Infections / diagnosis*
HIV Infections / therapy*
Humans
Information Storage and Retrieval / methods
Medical History Taking / statistics & numerical data*
Medical Records Systems, Computerized / statistics & numerical data*
Natural Language Processing*
Pennsylvania
Point-of-Care Systems / organization & administration*