Observational studyMalawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi2017
Use of an electronic medical record to monitor efficacy of diabetes care in out-patients in a central hospital in Malawi: Patterns of glycaemic control and lessons learned.
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- Using an Integrated Framework to Investigate the Facilitators and Barriers of Health Information Technology Implementation in Noncommunicable Disease Management: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Pooled it
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- 'Operating in the dark': perspectives of health service users and healthcare workers on quality of diabetes care at a public referral hospital in Blantyre, Malawi - a qualitative study.Wellcome open research · 2025Article
- Diabetology 4.0: Scoping Review of Novel Insights and Possibilities Offered by Digitalization.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- The Challenges in the Development of Diabetes Prevention and Care Models in Low-Income Settings.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020Review
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Abstract
The Malawian health sector has a strong tradition of systematic data collection for monitoring and evaluation of large-scale services. A highly successful adapted Directly Observed Treatment, Short course "DOTS" framework, based on patient registers and paper-based mastercards was introduced to facilitate the management and monitoring of the scale up of antiretroviral therapy. Subsequently, a simple, touch-screen based electronic medical record system (EMRs) was effectively introduced at high burden ART sites. Based on this model, in 2010, a diabetes specific EMRs was introduced in the diabetes clinic at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital. In this paper we report on the first 3 years experience with the diabetes EMRs. We highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the diabetes EMRs and present data on glycaemic control recorded in the system.
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