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dc.contributor.author | Were, Martin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Chepng'eno, Viola | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kariuki, James | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wandabwa, Margaret | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-04T08:23:02Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-04T08:23:02Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010-01 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.researchgate.net/deref/http%3A%2F%2Fdx.doi.org%2F10.3233%2F978-1-60750-588-4-525 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/3298 | - |
dc.description.abstract | There is limited experience with broad-based use of handheld technologies for clinical care during home visits in sub-Saharan Africa. We describe the design, development, implementation, and evaluation of a PDA/GPS-based system currently used during home visits in Western Kenya. The system, built on Pendragon Forms, was used to create electronic health records for over 40,000 individuals over a three-month period. Of these, 1900 represented cases where the individual had never received care for the identified condition in an established care facility. On a five-point scale, and compared to paper-and-pen systems, end-users felt that the handheld system was faster (4.4±0.9), easier to use (4.5±0.8), and produced higher quality data (4.7±0.7). Projected over three years to cover two million people, use of the handheld technologies would cost about $0.15 per person--compared to $0.21 per individual encounter entered manually into a computer from a paper form. A PDA/GPS system has been successfully and broadly implemented to support clinical care during home-based visits in a resource-limited setting | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Ampath | en_US |
dc.subject | Leapfrogging | en_US |
dc.subject | paper-based record | en_US |
dc.subject | technology | en_US |
dc.title | Leapfrogging paper-based records using handheld technology: Experience from Western Kenya | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
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