The improvement of infrastructure included patient and staff toilet facilities, pharmacy storage, increased consultation rooms, laboratory upgrading with equipment (CD4 machine, HIV testing kits, sterilizing equipment), and increased supplies (e.g. needles, gloves).
Facility characteristics included a PHC Infrastructure Index constructed using principal component analysis of 15 items related to the facility's infrastructure, such as the availability of electricity, water, and specific rooms for drug storage, cold chain, and consultations.
We have separate examination rooms, consultation rooms and storage and office space.
Links to a broadband network facilitate consultation and centralized storage of medical data.
It was filled out during interviews with responsible staff in ANC consultation rooms, pharmacies, laboratories and storage rooms at the health center level, and by taking an inventory of stocks available in warehouses at the central, provincial, and district level.
In each case, the motivations, choice of methods, required investigations, public consultation processes, and economics of subsurface storage are presented.
Additionally, utilizing digital images for teaching and consultation can be more effective for storage purposes and have easier accessibility as compared to traditional print photographs and slides.
A secure stand-alone network (the CDL stand-alone network) was designed in consultation with the PHRN to enable the storage and processing of demographic data received from the jurisdictional linkage units, researchers and other sources.
However, not all improvement activities –for example, reducing the access time to a consultations department- require changes in the storage and maintenance of equipment and material.
Variation in morbidity estimates can occur on different stages of the recording process, at the consultation, recording in the EHR, data extraction, data storage, analyses and use of the data for estimation of incidence and prevalence figures.
