Research technicians provided continuous monitoring of the completeness and correctness of the database, and collected patient outcome at hospital discharge.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2369/14/131/prepub We acknowledge all those who participated in the collection and monitoring of the completeness of the registry, especially the secretaries of the dialysis centres.
In health zones where MSF was implementing the reactive campaigns, the health surveillance system was strengthened with additional data collection, retrospective review of health registers and monitoring of data completeness.
During the 2010 outbreak, the surveillance system was strengthened by reinforcing health officer training (case definition and data collection), retrospective review of health registers, weekly communication to the district level for data sharing, monitoring of data completeness, and electronic compilation and cleaning of the line list.
Classifying the care episodes into groups associated with mechanisms of injury, as depicted in Figure 1, serves the purpose of monitoring the completeness of E-coding among the types of injuries most commonly involved in fire-related injuries together with the care episodes associated with fire-related injuries by definition (Table 1).
Incoming data are routinely monitored for completeness of data fields and consistency with the number of records routinely received from each data sources, and problems are corrected by working with the applicable data source; however, such checks can identify only large-scale problems and more detailed checking for data accuracy is beyond current capabilities.
Animals were monitored for completeness of resection and scored for primary tumour regrowth and metastasis.
We assessed the adequacy of monitoring and completeness of results reporting in Table 5. Artesunate-pyronaridine was associated with a four-fold increase in the incidence of ALT and AST grade 3 or 4 toxicity (elevations = five times the upper limit of normal) (ALT: RR 4.17, 95% CI 1.38 to 12.62, AST: RR 4.08, 95% CI 1.17 to 14.26; four trials, 3528 participants, Analysis 7.1).
Electronic transfer of data was monitored for completeness by the systems analysts at the University of Pittsburgh.
Survey and audio data were routinely monitored for completeness and quality over the course of data collection.
