Following discussion with AMTs the prescribing indicators were reviewed in March 2011 to refine the methodology for data collection, improve consistency and enable the data to further drive quality improvement.
And, they say, the data collection improves both services and safety.
If the test results are off target, then iterate back to Step One, refine the articulation, improve and focus data collection, improve and focus the analysis and with these new insights, synthesize a new solution.
Parallelization strategies will be highly attractive as the speed at which data collection improves.
Electronic surveys may facilitate efficient data collection, improve the convenience of questionnaire completion [ 13, 23], and increase item responses [ 23, 24].
Like many other design features, researchers have to make trade-offs between ease of data collection, improved statistical power, and interpretability of the results.
Electronic data collection improves data quality by providing software safeguards against entry omission and inconsistent response sets, and by completely eliminating data entry errors at the researcher's level.
Sharing of surveillance data between different actors in the complex emergency setting should be encouraged to prevent duplication in data collection, improve completeness of information and to share skills and resources [ 7].
While it is possible that the completeness of CHW data collection improved over time, this would mean that actual decreases in child mortality were even greater than our estimates suggest.
