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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Health and Medical Publishing Group
2018-08-01
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Series: | South African Medical Journal |
Online Access: | http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/download/12419/8620 |