Data quality monitoring and performance metrics of a prospective, population-based observational study of maternal and newborn health in low resource settings.

Publisher: BioMed Central Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101224380 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1742-4755 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 17424755 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Reprod Health Subsets: MEDLINE

Original Publication: [London] : BioMed Central, 2004-

Data Accuracy*; Infant Health/*statistics & numerical data ; Maternal Health/*statistics & numerical data ; Pregnancy Outcome/*epidemiology; Developing Countries ; Female ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant, Newborn ; Maternal Mortality ; Medically Underserved Area ; Perinatal Mortality ; Pregnancy ; Prospective Studies ; Registries/standards

Background: To describe quantitative data quality monitoring and performance metrics adopted by the Global Network's (GN) Maternal Newborn Health Registry (MNHR), a maternal and perinatal population-based registry (MPPBR) based in low and middle income countries (LMICs).
Methods: Ongoing prospective, population-based data on all pregnancy outcomes within defined geographical locations participating in the GN have been collected since 2008. Data quality metrics were defined and are implemented at the cluster, site and the central level to ensure data quality. Quantitative performance metrics are described for data collected between 2010 and 2013.
Results: Delivery outcome rates over 95% illustrate that all sites are successful in following patients from pregnancy through delivery. Examples of specific performance metric reports illustrate how both the metrics and reporting process are used to identify cluster-level and site-level quality issues and illustrate how those metrics track over time. Other summary reports (e.g. the increasing proportion of measured birth weight compared to estimated and missing birth weight) illustrate how a site has improved quality over time.
Conclusion: High quality MPPBRs such as the MNHR provide key information on pregnancy outcomes to local and international health officials where civil registration systems are lacking. The MNHR has measures in place to monitor data collection procedures and improve the quality of data collected. Sites have increasingly achieved acceptable values of performance metrics over time, indicating improvements in data quality, but the quality control program must continue to evolve to optimize the use of the MNHR to assess the impact of community interventions in research protocols in pregnancy and perinatal health.
Trial Registration Number: NCT01073475.

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ClinicalTrials.gov NCT01073475

Date Created: 20150612 Date Completed: 20160301 Latest Revision: 20221112

20240628

PMC4464020

10.1186/1742-4755-12-S2-S2

26062714