ArticleJournal of family medicine and primary care2025
Effectiveness of mobile and e-mail-based reporting on consistency in private health facilities for the disease surveillance system, Poonamallee Health District, Tamil Nadu, India: A parallel group, exploratory randomized open trial.
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Introduction: Lack of knowledge among private reporting units and inadequate information provided during notification led to poor reporting in India's surveillance system. We aimed to determine the effectiveness of two types of electronic systems (mobile and e-mail) for improving reporting to the Daily Disease Surveillance System (DDSS) from private health sector facilities in Poonamallee Health District, Tamil Nadu, India. Methods: We did an exploratory randomized, open trial with an equal allocation among all the private reporting units of DDSS. The data handlers from the reporting units were assigned to mobile or e-mail-based reporting after training. We measured and presented the consistency, completeness, timeliness, sensitivity, simplicity, acceptability, and usefulness as proportion. Results: We randomized 43 of 52 reporting units into mobile ( Conclusion: Both e-mail and mobile interventions have equally improved the consistency of reporting. The mobile-based reporting method was found to be more consistent and complete and maintain timeliness compared to the e-mail-based reporting method.
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