Tuberculosis Register Audit: a Comparison of TB Clinic, Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital and Tuberculosis and Leprosy Hospital, Bayelsa State, South-South, Nigeria.
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Background: Good documentation and completeness in medical record is an important aspect in realizing patient safety and implementation of healthcare services. In order to ensure that Tuberculosis data generated in health facilities are of high quality, there is a need for routine monitoring and periodic audit. However, there is dearth of research work that audited the quality of
Tuberculosis data generated in health facilities in South South, Nigeria. Therefore this study is aimed at carrying out audit and comparing Tuberculosis data generated in two health facilities in Bayelsa State, South South, Nigeria.
Methods: This was a health institutions-based retrospective study on the audit of Tuberculosis patients data generated in the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital and the Tuberculosis and Leprosy Referral Hospital between January, 2016-December, 2019.
The information for the study was collected from the Tuberculosis suspects and laboratory registers. Data were analyzed with Statistical Programme for Social Sciences version 20 (SPSS) software. The level of significance was set at P<0.05.
Results: A total of 1369 patients,601 patients from the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital and 768 patients from the Tuberculosis and Leprosy Referral Hospital had their data audited. The Tuberculosis data was more complete in the Niger Delta University Teaching Hospital than the Tuberculosis and Leprosy Referral Hospital notably for gender (98.5 % vs 94.4%; p<0.001, age
(98.5% vs 97.3%;p<0.12) and HIV status(98.6% vs 96.5% ; p<0.71) but the Tuberculosis and Leprosy Referral Hospital had more complete Gene Xpert data (98.3% vs 94.3%;p< 0.001).
Conclusion: Tuberculosis data generated in the two healthcare institutions was incomplete. The finding of this Tuberculosis data audit highlights the need for best practice to be adopted to ensure quality healthcare data.
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