Leveraging the Road to Health booklet as a unique patient identifier to monitor the prevention of mothertochild transmission programme

Background. Currently there is no unique patient identification system in the South African public health sector. Therefore, routine laboratory data cannot effectively be de-duplicated, thereby hampering surveillance of laboratory-diagnosed diseases such as mother-to-child transmission of HIV.Object...

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Main Authors: G Sherman, A Haeri Mazanderani, F Moyo, A Goga, U Feucht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Health and Medical Publishing Group 2018-08-01
Series:South African Medical Journal
Online Access:http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/download/12419/8620