HMIS RDQA AND LQAS DIFFERENCES Flashcards
it is routinely done?
Routine Data Quality Assessment
can be randomly conducted?
Lot Quality Assurance Sampling
Versatile capacity building and self- assessment tool for a program in a single health area as part of monitoring and supervision.
RDQA
Site-level assessment/supervi sion tool to assess completeness and consistency of records and investigate suspected data quality.
LQAS
Dimension of quality assessed of RDQA?
Accuracy Completeness Availability Timeliness
Dimension of quality assessed of LQAS?
Accuracy Completeness Timeliness Reliability
Internal consistency
Source documentation for validation for LQAS?
Patient medical records at SDP
Source documentation for validation for RDQA?
within SDPs from patient files and/or register
it is verified against Aggregate numbers reported by SDPs
RDQA
Alternate data sources within the SDP
LQAS
Systematic random sampling of patient records within SDPs,
LQAS
suggested sampling of LQAS?
Systematic random sampling of patient records
suggested sampling of RDQA?
Targeted group of SDPs or cluster based sampling
has 4 indicators within the same health or disease program?
Both RDQA and LQAS
Requires roughly 1 week to plan, gather data, implement, and report results.
RDQA
1-2 weeks, depending on sample.
LQAS
time of implementation of LQAS?
1-2 weeks depending on the sample
Time of implementation of RDQA?
1 weeks
frequency of RDQA?
Routinely and repeated
Frequency of LQAS?
As needed
patient medical record at SDP is the source documentation
LQAS
data is processed, collected, and released
Standard delivery point
data is collected form the archive or default storage
RDQA
look for alternate data sources within the specific service delivery point.
LQAS
