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eRegCom-Quality Improvement Dashboard for healthcare providers and Targeted Client Communication to pregnant women using data from an electronic health registry to improve attendance and quality of antenatal care: study protocol for a multi-arm cluster randomized trial.

Kjersti Mørkrid, Binyam Bogale, Eatimad Abbas, Khadija Abu Khader, Itimad Abu Ward, Amjad Attalh, Tamara Awwad, Mohammad Baniode, Kimberly Suzanne Frost, Michael James Frost and 10 more

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Article in Trials, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
2citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 5 institutions in 3 countries.

Kjersti MørkridDivision for Health Services, Global Health Cluster, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PB 222 Skøyen, 0213, Oslo, Norway.
Binyam BogaleDivision for Health Services, Global Health Cluster, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PB 222 Skøyen, 0213, Oslo, Norway.
Eatimad AbbasPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Khadija Abu KhaderPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Itimad Abu WardPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Amjad AttalhThe Palestinian Ministry of Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Tamara AwwadInstitute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University, Ramallah, Palestine.
Mohammad BaniodePalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Kimberly Suzanne FrostHealth Information Systems Programme, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Michael James FrostHealth Information Systems Programme, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Buthaina GhanemPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Taghreed HijazPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Mervett IsbeihPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Sally IssawiPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Zaher A S NazzalFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine.
Brian O'DonnellDivision for Health Services, Global Health Cluster, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PB 222 Skøyen, 0213, Oslo, Norway.
Sharif E QaddomiPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Yousef RabahPalestinian National Institute of Public Health, Ramallah, Palestine.
Mahima VenkateswaranDivision for Health Services, Global Health Cluster, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PB 222 Skøyen, 0213, Oslo, Norway.
J Frederik FrøenDivision for Health Services, Global Health Cluster, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PB 222 Skøyen, 0213, Oslo, Norway. frederik.froen@fhi.no.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9390-8509
National Institute of Public Health · SINorwegian Institute of Public Health · NOUniversity of Oslo · NOAn-Najah National University · PSBirzeit University · PS

Funding

European Research Council Grant agreement number: 617639Research Council of Norway Grant agreement number: 223269Research Council of Norway Grant agreement number: 234376
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundThis trial evaluates interventions that utilize data entered at point-of-care in the Palestinian maternal and child eRegistry to generate Quality Improvement Dashboards (QID) for healthcare providers and Targeted Client Communication (TCC) via short message service (SMS) to clients. The aim is to assess the effectiveness of the automated communication strategies from the eRegistry on improving attendance and quality of care for pregnant women.

methodsThis four-arm cluster randomized controlled trial will be conducted in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Palestine, and includes 138 clusters (primary healthcare clinics) enrolling from 45 to 3000 pregnancies per year. The intervention tools are the QID and the TCC via SMS, automated from the eRegistry built on the District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2) Tracker. The primary outcomes are appropriate screening and management of anemia, hypertension, and diabetes during pregnancy and timely attendance to antenatal care. Primary analysis, at the individual level taking the design effect of the clustering into account, will be done as intention-to-treat. DISCUSSION: This trial, embedded in the implementation of the eRegistry in Palestine, will inform the use of digital health interventions as a health systems strengthening approach.

trial registrationISRCTN Registry, ISRCTN10520687 . Registered on 18 October 2018.

Indexed as

Pregnant PeoplePrenatal CareChildCommunicationElectronicsFemaleHealth PersonnelHumansMiddle EastPregnancyQuality ImprovementRandomized Controlled Trials as TopicRegistriesAntenatal careAttendanceAudit and feedbackDHIS2Digital healthEffective coverageeHealthElectronic registryeRegistriesHealth systemsMaternal and newborn healthPalestineQuality of careSMSTargeted Client Communication

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PMID33430935
PMCPMC7802344
OpenAlexW3101838785

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