Cause-of-death certification in Africa: analysis of a model implemented at the teaching hospital of Souro Sanou of Bobo-Dioulasso (Burkina Faso)

Stud Health Technol Inform. 2014:205:1110-4.

Abstract

Introduction: In Africa, mortality statistics are not reliable due to the low performance of the death registering systems. Our aim is to implement an efficient system. In this article we make a comparison between the existing system model and the new system that will be set up.

Method: UML has been used as the modeling language based on the 2TUP analysis methods.

Results: the new system for registering deaths and their causes was conceived and represented through activities, utilization cases and data model diagrams.

Discussion: We have developed a tool for death registration taking into account African hospitals characteristics. The progressive deployment of this system at the CHUSS of Bobo-Dioulasso enables users and actors to appropriate it.

MeSH terms

  • Burkina Faso
  • Cause of Death
  • Death Certificates*
  • Documentation / standards*
  • Forms and Records Control
  • Guideline Adherence / standards
  • Hospitals, Teaching / standards*
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / standards
  • Medical Record Linkage / standards*
  • Models, Organizational*
  • Practice Guidelines as Topic*
  • User-Computer Interface
  • Vocabulary, Controlled*