HEALTHQUAL-Guyana Gears Up for Indicator Development, 1st Data Collection
December, 2008HEALTHQUAL-Guyana represents the first adaptation of the HIVQUAL framework beyond HIV care during its initial phase, and has been supported by UNICEF and CDC-Guyana.
Begun in 2008, the mission of the HEALTHQUAL-Guyana program is to improve the quality of child healthcare, including HIV care, in Guyana by building capacity for quality management. Led by the Guyana National AIDS Programme Secretariat (NAPS), and guided by a steering committee composed of representatives from the Bureau of Maternal Child Health, UNICEF, CDC-Guyana and FXB-Guyana, the program is moving rapidly through its first phase. A set of indicators has been developed for use in pediatric settings that will be used to measure the quality of well-child care. For all children, including those not infected with HIV, four well-child care indicators have been developed: clinical visits, growth monitoring, assessment of developmental milestones and vaccination coverage. Additional indicators used for children infected with HIV include CD4 monitoring, ART, adherence assessment, cotrimoxazole prophylaxis, TB screening and general medical care which includes routine measurement and documentation of vital signs.
In October 2008, a two-day training was held for representatives of the 20 participating sites to review the HIVQUAL framework, and to train participants in case list generation, sampling, and chart abstraction, as well as use of the HEALTHQUAL-Guyana software for data entry and report generation. Data transfer procedures were also outlined for the secure and orderly submission of data from the sites to the central team. The training, led by HEALTHQUAL’s Charley Borden, in collaboration with the MOH, was a hands-on session designed to build capacity amongst facility staff. The first round of data collection is underway, with results expected in the coming months.
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