officers, who are not directly involved with the work, and may not be healthcare personnel. It has been suggested that this has implications for accuracy and data integrity. Recently, on a project, the importance of facility…
Recently, on a project, the importance of facility staff oversight of data collection officers’ work became apparent. A data collection entry staff had wrongly imputed ‘negative’ on the software tool for tests that were not done. Before it was caught by the facility staff running the tests, 157 erroneous entries had been uploaded into the software.
Medicine doctor analysis and diagnosis checking health of patient online and testing result with modern virtual interface on laptop with stethoscope in hand, Online Medical global network concept. They advocated for laboratory software that does not allow blank results. This however was the challenge the data entry staff faced in 2022 that made him select Negative for all the tests that were reported as not done in the paper-based entries.