Introduction
Implementation of effective IPC measures includes administrative controls, environmental controls, and availability and effective use of personal protective equipment. When implemented together, these IPC measures prevent the transmission of infections within the health care facility and are essential to prevent health care worker infections, protect the health workforce and the patients it serves.
Purpose of the dashboard
The purpose of this interactive dashboard is to monitor progress of the phase-III response for building capacity of healthcare workers in primary health care (PHC) facilities in FCT-Abuja, Kano, and Ogun states.
Main objectives
1. To assess the data quality and develop information quality metrics.
2. Design an interactive dashboard that is automatically available to monitor project data.
3. Support activities related to the dashboard infrastructure including security administration, troubleshooting and general systems maintenance
4. Manage, run and refresh schedules for dashboards and reports including bug fixing, maintenance and upgrades to code where necessary.
The dashboard
The Emergency IPC dashboard consists of five thematic areas, which together enable the key performance indicators (KPIs) to be monitored from baseline through each assessment cycle.
The thematic areas are:
Surveillance
Infection prevention and control
Hand hygiene
Waste management
Continuity of essential services
The dashboard monitors KPIs in a dynamic and interactive manner and is presented in terms of a map and charts that show different indicators under each major theme. The within the map, one can view the location of each of the facilities visited for the current round of observation and view how the facility performed for each indicator. On the map, details of the facility such as the facility name, Local Government Area and the performance Each facility is also presented by a colour-coded dot where green represents facility that have demonstrated improvement (positive observations) and red showing facilities that have declined (negative observations). Use of the colour-code allows the user of the dashboard to identify indicators or states that are on track (predominantly green) or off track (predominantly red) and also to drill down to the specific facility and view how each facility has performed.
The dashboard also uses line graphs summarised by state and whether a facility is in the intervention or control arm. Line graphs are able to track the progress for each indicator from baseline through different rounds of observations.