Abstract:

Objective To understand the quality of statutorily notifiable infectious disease information reported directly via network in medical institutions at all levels in Jilin Province for evidences to improve the quality of infectious disease information reporting across the province. Methods By multi-stage stratified random sampling, we retrieved the reports of notifiable communicable diseases from different levels of medical institutions in Jilin Province from 2018 to 2021, and applied the technique for order preference by similarity to an ideal solution (TOPSIS) to comprehensively evaluating the quality of the reports. Results A total of 134 medical institutions, including 5 institutions at provincial level, 32 at prefecture level, 47 at county level and 50 at township level in Jilin Province underwent survey from 2018 to 2021. The reporting and timely reporting rate of notifiable infectious diseases were 96.89% and 99.75%, respectively. The completion rate of infectious diseases reported by hard copy (electronic) and the accuracy rate of the hard copy were respectively 99.82% and 95.93%. The consistency rate of information in network reporting was 93.47%, and the completion rate of valid documentation numbers in the hard copy was 99.79%. Comprehensive evaluation results by TOPSIS method showed that the comprehensive quality of infectious disease reporting in medical institutions at all levels was ranked from high to low as provincial, township, prefecture, and county-level. Conclusion The quality of statutorily notifiable infectious disease information reported directly via network in medical institutions in Jilin Province was generally good, yet certain issues, such as delayed and inaccurate reporting, still exist, which suggests that the reporting quality should be further polished in the medical institutions.

Key words: Medical institution, Notifiable infectious disease, Reporting quality, TOPSIS, Jilin Province