Examples include licensing and accreditation arrangements for health producers and facilities, codes of practice linked to certification, and the establishment of branded products and services, that are known for their quality.
One of the Nisos operators, carrying a messenger bag with a radio-frequency identification device concealed inside it, surreptitiously scanned the facility code from employees' I.D. badges.
Because the inpatient cases are found in both datasets, we de-duplicated the merged dataset using probabilistic matching on eight variables (date of admission, date of discharge, date of birth, sex, age, residential ZIP code, diagnosis codes and facility code).
When quoting participants, unique identification codes are used as follows: P (patient), C (caregiver) or S (staff) followed by an identifying number and facility code (see Table 1).
At each site, five adult doses of each available antimalarial drug were obtained, in their original packaging, and stored in ziplock bags marked with the facility code.
As there is no unique patient identifier in Queensland, a mapping table, which linked WPHC reference number, hospital facility code and local unit record number, was developed using name, date of birth, and sex, and matched by probability matching method.
MW, JT, RK, and JO cleaned and merged the data and linked to facility codes.
Individual identification is being given sequentially while there are no facility codes as the facilities are identified by names.
Online dissemination of the MHFL helped integrate the unique health facility codes into other data collection efforts.
The main covariate of interest was the type of delivery facility, coded as public (eg, district hospitals), private (individual private clinics or hospitals), or NGO/charitable (eg, Christian missionary hospitals in rural India; BRAC clinics in Bangladesh).
Patients gave a self-report on demographic data as follows; age (coded 18 29, 30 39, 40 63), gender (male/female), country of recruitment (Kenya/Uganda), number of dependents (coded as 0 1, 2 3, 4+), time to travel to the facility (coded as an hour or less/more than an hour), and ART use (yes/no).
