Erika Feutz, Prasanta K Biswas, Latif Ndeketa, Billy Ogwel, Uma Onwuchekwa, Golam Sarwar, Shazia Sultana, Pablo Peñataro Yori, Alyssa Acebedo, Naveed Ahmed, Imran Ahmed, Hannah E Atlas, Alex O Awuor, Md Amirul Islam Bhuiyan, Bakary Conteh, Oualy Diawara, Sarah Elwood, Moussa Fane, Md Ismail Hossen, Mahzabeen Ireen, Abdoulie F Jallow, Mehrab Karim, Margaret N Kosek, Karen L Kotloff, Clement Lefu, Jie Liu, Rebecca Maguire, Farah Naz Qamar, Maureen Ndalama, John Benjamin Ochieng, Caleb Okonji, Loyda Fiorella Zegarra Paredes, Patricia B Pavlinac, Karin Perez, Sonia Qureshi, Francesca Schiaffino, Moussa Traore, Kirkby D Tickell, Richard Wachepa, Desiree Witte, Jennifer Cornick, M Jahangir Hossain, Farhana Khanam, Maribel Paredes Olortegui, Richard Omore, Samba O Sow, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai, Sean R Galagan
BACKGROUND: Rigorous data management systems and planning are essential to successful research projects, especially for large, multicountry consortium studies involving partnerships across multiple institutions. Here we describe the development and implementation of data management systems and procedures for the Enterics For Global Health (EFGH) Shigella surveillance study-a 7-country diarrhea surveillance study that will conduct facility-based surveillance concurrent with population-based enumeration and a health care utilization survey to estimate the incidence of Shigella- -associated diarrhea in children 6 to 35 months old...
March 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases