This technical brief summarizes key updates to the 2018 Data quality assessment of national and partner HIV treatment and patient monitoring data and systems implementation tool focusing on implementing and following up remedial activities after such assessments and guidance on developing data quality improvement strategies. It is intended that this technical update is used alongside the 2018 implementation tool to support country implementation of data quality assessments.
This technical brief provides further guidance and recommendations on the following:
- developing a follow-up action plan after conducting data quality assessment to support the implementation of remedial actions;
- disseminating, notifying and reporting data quality assessment results;
- using data quality assessment results to adjust national HIV estimates; and
- implementing data quality improvement activities at the site level that link data quality assessment to broader data quality improvement activities to address data quality issues and strengthen data use.