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. 2007 Oct 11:873.

Assessing effects of the e-Chasqui laboratory information system on accuracy and timeliness of bacteriology results in the Peruvian tuberculosis program

Joaquin A Blaya  1 , Sonya S Shin, Martin J A Yagui, Gloria Yale, Carmen Suarez, Luis Asencios, Hamish Fraser
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  • PMID: 18693974

Assessing effects of the e-Chasqui laboratory information system on accuracy and timeliness of bacteriology results in the Peruvian tuberculosis program

Joaquin A Blaya et al. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. .

Abstract

We created a web-based laboratory information system, e-Chasqui to connect public laboratories to health centers to improve communication and analysis. After one year, we performed a pre and post assessment of communication delays and found that e-Chasqui maintained the average delay but eliminated delays of over 60 days. Adding digital verification maintained the average delay, but should increase accuracy. We are currently performing a randomized evaluation of the impacts of e-Chasqui.

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