Development and Validation of the DHIS2 Platform for Integrating Sociomedical Data to Study Wound Care Outcomes

Overview

Journal PLoS One

Specialties General Medicine
Science

Date 2024 Dec 4

PMID 39630628

Authors

Atika Rahman Paddo

Snigdha Kodela

Lava Timsina

Shomita S Mathew-Steiner

Saptarshi Purkayastha

Chandan K Sen

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Abstract

Wound trajectory and outcomes research has applications in different aspects of wound healing: forecasting wound healing time, access and utilization of wound care services, factors associated with disparities in wound care services, and its quality and outcomes. Wound care research benefits from a well-maintained record management system. In this article, we demonstrate the customization of the District Health Information Software (DHIS2) platform to integrate wound care clinical data with social determinants of health from several Comprehensive Wound Centers (CWC) in Indiana. We describe the modules and features of our platform, such as tracker capture, visualization, and maps. DHIS2 is used in more than 60 countries to monitor and evaluate health programs. However, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first attempt to use DHIS2 as a wound care data warehouse, a platform to perform wound care research for academic researchers and clinical practitioners. Clinicians can use the platform as one of the key tools to make an informed decision in determining the treatment for favorable healing trajectory and wound outcomes. We conducted a usability and acceptance survey among researchers at the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering and found that DHIS2 can be a suitable infrastructure to manage metadata to import and analyze combined data from disparate sources, including Electronic Medical Records, WoundExpert, and clinical trials management software like REDCap.

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