Abstract
Ukraine has successfully implemented e-TB Manager nationwide as its mandatory national tuberculosis registry after first introducing it in 2009. Our objective was to perform an end-of-programme evaluation after formal handover of the registry administration to Ukraine's Centre for Disease Control in 2015.
We conducted a nationwide, cross-sectional, anonymous, 18-point user experience survey, and stratified the registry's transaction statistics to demonstrate usability.
Contrary to initial implementation experience, older users (aged >50 years), often with limited or no computer proficiency prior to using the registry, had significantly better user experience scores for at least six of the 12 measures compared to younger users (aged 18–29 years). Using the registry for >3 years was associated with significantly higher scores for having capacity, adequacy of training received and satisfaction with the registry. Of the 5.9 million transactions over a 4-year period, nine out of 24 oblasts (regions) and Kiev city accounted for 62.5% of all transactions, and corresponded to 59% of Ukraine's tuberculosis burden. There were 437 unique active users in 486 rayons (districts) of Ukraine, demonstrating extensive reach.
Our key findings complement the World Health Organization and European Respiratory Society's agenda for action on digital health to help implement the End TB Strategy.
Abstract
User experience analysis of Ukraine's nationwide tuberculosis registry by @N_Konduri et al. http://ow.ly/CLJJ309YnkP
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This article has been revised according to the correction published in this issue of ERJ Open Research.
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Support statement: This work was supported by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) (Washington, DC, USA) cooperative agreement number AID-OAA-A-11-00021. No funding bodies had any role in the study design, data collection, analysis or decision to publish. The findings, opinions and conclusions in this article are those of the authors, and do not necessarily represent the views and opinions of the Public Health Centre, Ministry of Health of Ukraine, Management Sciences for Health, SIAPS, USAID or the US Government. Funding information for this article has been deposited with the Crossref Funder Registry.
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- Received January 3, 2017.
- Accepted March 5, 2017.
- Copyright ©ERS 2017
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