Ordered Bar Charts and Pareto
Ordered Bar Charts and Pareto Diagrams help teams focus, providing knowledge on where to change, what issues are common and for who in the system change is needed.
Run Charts
The ability to distinguish real change from random variation in our data is critical to any improvement journey. Run Charts can help bring objectivity to these assessments.
Are you using data the right way?
How leaders interpret data affects the quality of decision making.
Branching Out - Use measurement trees to determine whether your improvement efforts are paying off
When embarking on any improvement project, there are three critical questions team must ask to guide improvement efforts…
Improving public health information: a data quality intervention in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Objective: To evaluate the effect of an intervention to improve the quality of data used to monitor the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of the human immunodeficiency virus in South Africa.
Challenges for Routine Health System Data Management in a Large Public Programme to Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission in South Africa
Changes to South Africa’s prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) guidelines have raised hope that the national goal of reducing perinatal HIV transmission rates to less than 5% can be attained. While programmatic efforts to reach this target are underway, obtaining complete and accurate data from clinical sites to track progress presents a major challenge. We assessed the completeness and accuracy of routine PMTCT data submitted to the district health information system (DHIS) in three districts of Kwazulu-Natal province, South Africa.