ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE SYSTEM FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS

Authors

  • Nzeribe, S.O. Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria
  • Ugwunna, C.O Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Keywords:

Maternal and child mortality, healthcare providers, online quality assurance model, standard performance, WHO

Abstract

Despite considerable efforts made to ensure skilled birth attendance with the aim of reducing morbidity and mortality among mothers and newborns, there is absence of quality check and monitoring of services rendered by healthcare providers. This absence has in turn increased the level of maternal, child death and morbidity. Based on this, there is a need to create a system that can check the quality of medical treatment and amenities of the healthcare providers for the purpose of achieving desired outcome that are both consistent with current professional knowledge and basic healthcare rights. The research focuses on designing an online based quality assurance system for maternal and child healthcare providers. Object Oriented Analysis and Design Methodology (OOADM) was adopted for both analysis and design of the system. Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) Cascading style sheet (CSS) and Javascript were used for the interface while APACHE server and MySQL were for the database analysis. The result is an online-based quality assurance system that assesses and evaluates the services rendered by healthcare providers to mothers and children using an agreed upon standards according to World Health Organization (WHO) specifications. The system either grants or denies license code to the hospital based on the outcome of performance. Mean was used to calculate the performance standard based on the universal bench mark provided by WHO. The values of the performance standard are x1, x2, x3……xn and the grading inputs are; evidence-based practices for routine care and management of complication, actionable information system, functional referral system, effective communication, respect and preservation of dignity, emotional support, competence, motivated human resource and essential physical resource. The quality assurance standard performance is the percentage value of the mean.

Author Biographies

Nzeribe, S.O., Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria

Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Physical Sciences

Ugwunna, C.O, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Ogun State, Nigeria.

Department of Computer Science

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Published

2021-08-18