Goals/Scope
To include the ARV&OI program “regimens” tab as a third tab in ARV&OI R&Rs.
Status in eLMIS: In eLMIS and in use
Status in OpenLMIS: Not in OpenLMIS
Medium priority - not core to OpenLMIS scope, but needed to match eLMIS functionality
Background
The ARV&OI program in Tanzania has an extra tab (after the full-supply and non-full-supply products tabs) where regimen data is reported. A regimen is a combination of drugs (e.g., “TDF+3T+EFV”). The tab lists regimens under two headings: adult regimens and then pediatric regimens (with some regimens with the same name appearing separately under both headings). There are four columns:
- “Number of patients given ARVs in this quarter”
- “Estimate of new patients” (i,e., who will begin during the next quarter)
- “Number of patients who died or stopped”
- “Remarks”
Specific mapping between the orderable products and these regimens are not in eLMIS, and there aren’t any linkages such as data triangulation or checking between this data and the data on the other two tabs of the R&R. The CTC pharmacy module (another system in use at facility level) does contain this mapping between ARV regimens and MSD orderable products so that it can do cross-checks and comparisons between dispensing data and patient records data which records regimens - the mapping shows all the different combinations of products which can be used to make up each regimen. In other words, this regimen-product mapping is possible to do, but it is not in eLMIS. There is no validation on this data besides checking that the first three columns are positive numbers.
It could be argued that this data is not core to the scope of eLMIS, and belongs more in a system such as DHIS. The main argument for including it seems to be to allow district pharmacists to see this data in one R&R screen so they can manually triangulate regimen data against the main R&R data, and for national level staff to be able to analyse data by regimen.
NOTE:
THIS DATA IS NEEDED FOR LOGISTICS PURPOSES AND NOT FOR HMIS/DHIS, THEREFORE IT IS REQUIRED TO BE INCLUDED IN THE LMIS FORMS AND ITS PER SOPs OF NACP PROGRAM
Assumptions
- In this story user means or one of the following, Health Facility incharge, DMO, Community and Regional Management Team (C/RHMT), Logistics officer/Advisors, Senior level decision maker, M&E officer/Advisor etc
User Stories
# | Title | User Story | Label | Importance | Notes |
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1 | View regiment data for analysis | As user I want to view analysis of regimen data so that I can inform planning. | eLMIS Tanzania | Must have | (on an additional tab) |
2 | enter data on adult and pediatric regimens | As facility Incharge/store incharge/District data personnel I want to enter “Number of patients given ARVs in this quarter”, “Estimate of new patients” (ie who will begin during the next quarter), “Number of patients who died or stopped” and “Remarks”.for each adult regimen and each pediatric regimen so that I can inform my immediate supervisor the number of patients in each regimen | eLMIS Tanzania | Must Have | |
3 | Configure regiment lists. | As an administrator I want to configure lists of regimens for a regimen tab, including adult and pediatric regimens, so that these values can be updated and selected by users. | Tanzania | Must Have | |
4 | View regimen data in one R&R screen for pharmacists | As a district pharmacist/Logistic officer, I want to see this data in one R&R screen so I can manually triangulate regimen data against the main R&R data. | Tanzania | Must Have |
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Open Questions
Below is a list of questions to be addressed as a result of this requirements document:
# | Question | Outcome | Status |
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1 | For Tanzania user stories: review the users, "so thats" added, review the label, and review the priority level.d |