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Table 4 Effect of phone calls and supervision visits on data quality, stratified by type of site

From: Impact of two interventions on timeliness and data quality of an electronic disease surveillance system in a resource limited setting (Peru): a prospective evaluation

  

Error per Total Reports* (EPTR)

Variation EPTR

 

Type Site

Group

Pre Intervention

%

Intervention

%

?(CI)

p-value

Clinic

Phone

0.99

1.06

↑0.07 (↓0.9 – ↑1.0)

0.888

 

Visits

7.10

2.00

↓5.10 (↓8.7 - ↓1.4)

0.007

 

Control

1.94

1.02

↓0.92 (↓3.4 - ↑1.5)

0.470

Ship

Phone

8.16

6.69

↓1.47 (↓4.6 - ↑1.7)

0.361

 

Visits

7.32

6.67

↓0.65 (↓2.4 - ↑1.1)

0.455

 

Control

8.49

7.59

↓0.90 (↓3.6 - ↑1.8)

0.519

  1. (*) Error per total reports (EPTR) = Number of errors detected in reports divided by the total number of reports, multiplied by 100
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BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making

ISSN: 1472-6947

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