Quality Control of a Health Information System for Causes of Death Statistics in Burkina Faso Using Capture-Recapture Method (original) (raw)

Studies in health technology and informatics, 2016

Abstract

INTRODUCTION The information system on the causes of death (ISCD), set up in Burkina Faso in January 2014 at the University Hospital Center Souro Sanon (UHCSS) of Bobo-Dioulasso, was evaluated to assess its completeness in terms of death statistics generation. METHOD The capture-recapture method was used to assess this quality control using the three-sources technique. RESULTS The cross verification of the three data sources (mortuary, admission department, death certificate) gave the following estimations: number of deaths observed: 735, total estimated deaths: 852 [820-900], i.e. 86% of completeness achieved by the statistics generating system. DISCUSSION The ISCD is functional and produces easy-to-cross-check quality data. It could be extended to the entire country for the generation of mortality statistics. Nevertheless, it needs to be improved before deploying across the country.

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