LS participated in interview guide development, interviewed providers, coded and analyzed the data, and drafted the manuscript.
CH led interview guide development, interviewed providers, coded and analyzed the data and helped to draft the manuscript.
EE participated in interview guide development, recruited and interviewed providers, coded and analyzed the data, and reviewed and revised the manuscript.
This presentation draws on three sets of data from 42 facilities in Kenya and Swaziland: 1) structured surveys with providers analysed using Stata 11.2; 2) in-depth interviews with 56 providers coded using Nvivo 8; analyzed using thematic analysis.
Also, in this patient population, providers coded infections themselves within the EpicCare EHR system and thus PPV may vary in settings where providers do not perform the coding or in which the method of coding (e.g., the EHR system) varies.
The web service provider code is written in Perl using the SOAP::WSDL module and is available via the CoPub portal http://www.copub.org.
Noncompliance was defined as missing more than one scheduled visit or having at least one provider code for not taking medications as prescribed.
Physician visits were further subdivided into primary (e.g., general practitioner, family physician) and 'specialty' care (e.g., sport medicine physician, orthopaedic surgeon) visits using provider codes.
We excluded day cases and private and community hospitals that, based on their hospital episode statistics provider codes, were unlikely to accept acute admissions.
The provider code enables identification of the prescriber's specialty, name, and address, and in case of single practitioners, their age and sex.
