Nominal TB Reporting

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Nominal TB Reporting

• NTP Syria
• Damascus - September 2002

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What is TB nominal reporting

• It is the reporting of cases registered in TB
  diagnostic centers by name.
• This reporting can be monthly or quarterly
  according to the level of the service and the
  workload.

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Beginning of the story

• The Monthly TB nominal report on case finding,
  was introduced in all provinces during 1994-1995
  before DOTS implementation
• During 1995-1996 the NTP CU tried to keep the
  quality of information and the regularity of
  reporting within standards.

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Next step

• In 1996 a computerized program was developed
  using Excel to document the notification
  electronically.
• The first printed annual report was produced for
  1997, the same year of beginning of DOTS project.

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It is still useful

• The monthly TB nominal reporting proved to be a
  very efficient tool during DOTS expansion to
  calculate the needs ( drugs and other supplies),
  to facilitate the supervision, to improve the
  accuracy of quarterly reports using double
  checking, and finally prevent duplication using
  the national case index number
• 000(X,B,E)Pdn/Y
• Eg 112E,D1/2002

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Next step

• During the last year the monthly TB nominal
  report of follow up tests and treatment outcomes,
  was also introduced
• Both the case finding and treatment outcomes
  reports can compose the district register.

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Practically

• They are send from the TB centers at the
  provincial level ( diagnostic level), to the
  central unit as a hard copy, and they are entered
  in the computer files at the central level.
• Due to the lack of human power and computers at
  the central unit, it was hard to keep all the
  information updated as a soft copy but they are
  all available as a hard copy.

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More over

• Some provinces now began to inter and send soft
  copies of the reports.
• The main obstacle is the availability of
  computers in TB centers at the provincial level.
• Training is not an obstacle, since what is needed
  is only to enter the information on the excel
  sheet.
• Updating the management of data does not need an
  expert or a programmer.

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Let us see example

• We will go now to a demonstration file to see an
  example