Development and application of an electronic treatment register: a system for enumerating populations and monitoring treatment during mass drug administration

Global Health Action

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Jasmine Farzana¹  Saravanakumar Puthupalayam Kaliappan¹  Sitara Swarna Rao Ajjampur¹  Moudachirou Ibikounlé²  Parfait Houngbégnon²  Eloic Atindegla²  Alvin Chisambi³  Khumbo Kalua³  Stefan Witek-McManus⁴  Mira Emmanuel-Fabula⁵  Marie-Claire Gwayi-Chore⁵  Katherine E. Halliday⁵  David S. Kennedy⁵  Arianna Rubin Means⁵  William E. Oswald⁵  Kristjana H. Ásbjörnsdóttir⁵  Judd L. Walson⁵  Sean R. Galagan⁵  Hugo Legge⁵  Elodie Yard⁵ 

[1] Christian Medical College;

[2] Institut de Recherche Clinique du Bénin (IRCB);

[3] Lions Sight First Eye Hospital;

[4] London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine;

[5] Natural History Museum;

关键词: neglected tropical diseases;    soil-transmitted helminths;    deworming;    electronic data collection;    monitoring;   

DOI  :  10.1080/16549716.2020.1785146

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

We developed an electronic treatment register for the DeWorm3 Project, a cluster-randomised, controlled trial in Benin, India, and Malawi testing the feasibility of interrupting transmission of soil-transmitted helminths through community-wide mass drug administration. The electronic treatment register was designed in xlsform, deployed via the SurveyCTO mobile data collection platform, and implemented on smartphones running the Android operating system. The versatile system enables collection of census and treatment status information, facilitates data aggregation and visualisation, and permits real-time feedback loops during implementation of mass drug administration. Here we describe the system’s design and use within the DeWorm3 Project and key features, and by sharing the register here, we hope our readers will further explore its use within their research and disease-control activities.

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