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has title	SMS-based smartphone application for disease surveillance has doubled completeness and timeliness in a limited-resource setting – evaluation of a 15-week pilot program in Central African Republic (CAR)
Creator	Cavailler, Philippe Duc, Geraldine Dumont, Thierry El-Khatib, Ziad Guerra, José Inagbe, Dago Kouli, Jean-Pierre Massina, Lazare Mbailao, Raphael Mboma, Hippolyte Nabeth, Pierre Philibert, Aline Quere, Michel Reaiche, Souheil Reeder, Bruce Shah, Maya Staiger, Claes-Philip Willett, Brian Yao, Michel Barry, Alpha Manengu, Casimir Zallappa, Samuel De Ribaucourt, Hervé
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abstract	BACKGROUND: It is a challenge in low-resource settings to ensure the availability of complete, timely disease surveillance information. Smartphone applications (apps) have the potential to enhance surveillance data transmission. METHODS: The Central African Republic (CAR) Ministry of Health and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) conducted a 15-week pilot project to test a disease surveillance app, Argus, for 20 conditions in 21 health centers in Mambéré Kadéi district (MK 2016). Results were compared to the usual paper-based surveillance in MK the year prior (MK 2015) and simultaneously in an adjacent health district, Nana-Mambére (NM 2016). Wilcoxon rank sum and Kaplan-Meier analyses compared report completeness and timeliness; the cost of the app, and users’ perceptions of its usability were assessed. RESULTS: Two hundred seventy-one weekly reports sent by app identified 3403 cases and 63 deaths; 15 alerts identified 28 cases and 4 deaths. Median completeness (IQR) for MK 2016, 81% (81–86%), was significantly higher than in MK 2015 (31% (24–36%)), and NM 2016 (52% (48–57)) (p < 0.01). Median timeliness (IQR) for MK 2016, 50% (39–57%) was also higher than in MK 2015, 19% (19–24%), and NM 2016 29% (24–36%) (p < 0.01). Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis showed a significant progressive reduction in the time taken to transmit reports over the 15-week period (p < 0.01). Users ranked the app’s usability as greater than 4/5 on all dimensions. The total cost of the 15-week pilot project was US$40,575. It is estimated that to maintain the app in the 21 health facilities of MK will cost approximately US$18,800 in communication fees per year. CONCLUSIONS: The app-based data transmission system more than doubled the completeness and timeliness of disease surveillance reports. This simple, low-cost intervention may permit the early detection of disease outbreaks in similar low-resource settings elsewhere.
has issue date	2018-10-24(xsd:dateTime)
bibo:doi	10.1186/s13031-018-0177-6
bibo:pmid	30386418
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schema:url	https://doi.org/10.1186/s13031-018-0177-6
resource representing a document's title	SMS-based smartphone application for disease surveillance has doubled completeness and timeliness in a limited-resource setting – evaluation of a 15-week pilot program in Central African Republic (CAR)
has PubMed Central identifier	PMC6199707
has PubMed identifier	30386418
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