Digital health and data systems
Large-scale collection and curation of antimicrobial-resistance data
Under CAPTURA, Anweshan collected and curated more than 300,000 antimicrobial-resistance records from over twenty hospitals across Nepal.
- Completed
- 2020
- International Vaccine Institute
- Nepal
Overview
The team negotiated data agreements with each hospital, checked laboratory and clinical variables, standardised records that had been kept in different ways, and transferred them securely to the international project. Every source and coding decision was documented, so researchers anywhere can trace what each field means.
Expertise
- Surveillance and data curation
- Data management and analysis
How we worked
- 01
Negotiated data agreements with more than twenty hospitals.
- 02
Checked laboratory and clinical variables and standardised records kept in different formats.
- 03
Transferred curated data securely to the international project.
- 04
Documented every source and coding decision.
What it produced
- More than 300,000 curated AMR records
- Data documentation that lets researchers trace every field