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- Individual patient care and program evaluation are crucial for successful antiretroviral treatment programs in resource-limited countries.
- Effective data management, including what data to collect and how to enter it, is essential for these large-scale programs.
- The described patient-monitoring approach at Princess Marina Hospital in Botswana combines paper and electronic forms for efficient data capture, saving time and maintaining focus on patient care.
Article Abstract
Individual patient care and programme evaluation are pivotal for the success of antiretroviral treatment programmes in resource-limited countries. While computer-aided documentation and data storage are indispensable for any large programme, several important issues need to be addressed including which data are to be collected, who collects it and how it is entered into an electronic database. We describe a patient-monitoring approach, which uses patient encounter forms (in hybrid paper + electronic format) based on optical character recognition, piloted at Princess Marina Hospital in Gaborone, Botswana's first public highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) outpatient clinic. Our novel data capture approach collects "key" data for tracking patient and programme outcomes. It saves physician time and does not detract from clinical care.
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