Case 5 : Vaccination Under the Midnight Sun: Validation of an Immunization Registry in the Northwest Territories
With the implementation of mandatory reporting of all immunizations in the Northwest Territories (NWT) in 2012, the Department of Health and Social Services’ (DHSS) Disease Registry Unit was working toward the implementation of a new immunization registry similar to those implemented across the coun...
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ftunivwestonta:oai:ir.lib.uwo.ca:westernpublichealthcases-1035 2023-10-01T03:58:24+02:00 Case 5 : Vaccination Under the Midnight Sun: Validation of an Immunization Registry in the Northwest Territories LeBlanc, Shannon Hannah, Heather Terry, Amanda 2016-01-01T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/westernpublichealthcases/vol2016/iss1/11 https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/westernpublichealthcases/article/1035/viewcontent/2016_Case_5.pdf unknown Scholarship@Western https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/westernpublichealthcases/vol2016/iss1/11 https://ir.lib.uwo.ca/context/westernpublichealthcases/article/1035/viewcontent/2016_Case_5.pdf Western Public Health Casebooks immunization coverage immunization registry information system original immunization data paper immunization records text 2016 ftunivwestonta 2023-09-03T07:02:27Z With the implementation of mandatory reporting of all immunizations in the Northwest Territories (NWT) in 2012, the Department of Health and Social Services’ (DHSS) Disease Registry Unit was working toward the implementation of a new immunization registry similar to those implemented across the country. However, the current immunization registry was in the format of an Excel workbook. The DHSS noticed several issues with the quality of the data maintained in the spreadsheets. As part of Janet’s practicum, she conducted an audit of the immunizations for the cohort of children born between 2012 and 2014, inclusive, within the registry. Community health centres are required to submit immunizations they have administered via a monthly spreadsheet. The Disease Registry team then validates and cleans the information submitted and consolidates all the data into the immunization registry on one master Excel workbook. It is important to note that the original data submitted to the DHSS from the health centres is only added to the immunization registry after the Disease Registries Officer has confirmed that the data are clean. To assess the validity and reliability of the data, the community health centres were contacted and asked to submit all paper immunization records for children in this cohort, which were then entered into another spreadsheet. The cohort spreadsheet and the immunization registry were compared to determine the number of errors across various variables. To summarize, the audit was a comparison of the original community spreadsheet submitted to the DHSS with the paper immunization cards, which Janet entered into a separate spreadsheet to easily compare the two datasets. Text Northwest Territories midnight sun The University of Western Ontario: Scholarship@Western Northwest Territories |
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With the implementation of mandatory reporting of all immunizations in the Northwest Territories (NWT) in 2012, the Department of Health and Social Services’ (DHSS) Disease Registry Unit was working toward the implementation of a new immunization registry similar to those implemented across the country. However, the current immunization registry was in the format of an Excel workbook. The DHSS noticed several issues with the quality of the data maintained in the spreadsheets. As part of Janet’s practicum, she conducted an audit of the immunizations for the cohort of children born between 2012 and 2014, inclusive, within the registry. Community health centres are required to submit immunizations they have administered via a monthly spreadsheet. The Disease Registry team then validates and cleans the information submitted and consolidates all the data into the immunization registry on one master Excel workbook. It is important to note that the original data submitted to the DHSS from the health centres is only added to the immunization registry after the Disease Registries Officer has confirmed that the data are clean. To assess the validity and reliability of the data, the community health centres were contacted and asked to submit all paper immunization records for children in this cohort, which were then entered into another spreadsheet. The cohort spreadsheet and the immunization registry were compared to determine the number of errors across various variables. To summarize, the audit was a comparison of the original community spreadsheet submitted to the DHSS with the paper immunization cards, which Janet entered into a separate spreadsheet to easily compare the two datasets. |
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