An assessment of routine primary care health information system data quality in Sofala Province, Mozambique

Table 1 Population and patient data sources of information

	Indicator	Source	Reference source	Time period	Analysis
Availability	Presence/absence of monthly maternity and immunization program reports on file	Monthly facility reports	Not applicable	Nov. 1, 2007-Oct. 31, 2008	Presence/absence of monthly reports at health facility and district health departments
Reliability	First ANC, institutional birth, DPT3, HIV testing, and outpatient consults	Facility clinical registries, monthly facility reports	Facility clinical reports	July 1, 2008-Dec. 31, 2008	Percent matching months between facility clinical registries and monthly facility reports, percent difference for non-identical months
	Immunization and maternity reports*	Monthly facility reports, MOH electronic database	Monthly facility reports	Nov. 1, 2007-Oct. 31, 2008	Percent matching months between monthly district reports and MOH electronic database
Validity	First ANC, institutional birth, DPT3	Provincial annual health report (data from MOH electronic database)	DHS, MICS	1995-2008	Percent of provincial annual health report figures falling within the 95% confidence intervals of DHS/MICS survey estimates, correlation coefficient from weighted linear regression
		DHS		1997, 2003
		MICS		2008

*Indicators in immunization report include target group, tetanus first dose, tetanus second to fifth dose, total tetanus doses, coverage rate/goal, doses used, and wastage rate. Indicators in maternity reports include institutional birth, live births, low-weight births, stillbirths, stillbirths with heartbeat upon hospital admission, discharges, total inpatient days.
(Key for abbreviations--ANC: antenatal care, DPT3: third diptheria, pertussis, and tetanus immunization, MOH: Ministry of Health, DHS: Demographic Health Survey, MICS: Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey)

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