Introductory Script
My name is Sarah Williams and I am a master student in global health at Duke University. My research interest is focused on data collection in low resource settings, particularly as it relates to registries and databases. As you know, data collection involves an entire team. I am interested in interviewing you today due to your direct or indirect involvement in the neurosurgery database at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. Thank you for your time.
General
- What is your professional title at MRRH?
- What is your role/position with the neurosurgery team?
- How long have you been in that role?
- Research training/ previous experience
- Could you tell me about the Neurosurgery Database at MRRH?
- Probe: What do you think is the intended purpose of the database?
- Probe: Do you think the database is serving that purpose? Why or Why not?
- Could you tell me any current organizational plans, policies, procedures, guidelines that relate to the database?
- Probe: Does anyone’s job description specifically address the review of database quality?
Data Use
- (Current Use)How is the data in the database currently used?
- Probe: Can you give me examples of times you used the data from the database?
- Probe: If so, How did you get the data?(i.e., directly accessed the database and extracted data, went through someone else.)
- Probe: Are visual forms of the data (e.g. graphs, charts, tables) readily available/easy to generate?
- How often do you think NS decisions are informed by this data?
- Have you ever consulted or requested a report from the database?
- If so, what type of information were you interested in?
- What do you think are the most useful data from in the database?
- In an ideal situation, how would the database be used?
- Probe: What are challenges/obstacles to using database in that way?
- Probe: Have there ever been steps taken to improve this?
- Probe: If so, please tell me about those efforts.
- Probe: Were they successful? If not, why?
- How/Why is a DB important? Or what are advantages/disadvantages to having a DB?
- Question about Usability/Accessibility?
- Probe: How easy is to access/update past records in DB?
- Probe: How easy is it to extract aggregated information from DB?
- Other Data Use attributes to ask about?
Data Collection
- What does good data collection mean to you?
- Please rate data collection at MRRH: 1 2 3 4 5
- What are the challenges to collecting data for the neurosurgery database?
- Probe: What are the most challenging variables to capture?
- Probe: What are the obstacles to collecting these variables?
- Probe: Have there been steps to improve collection of these variables?
- Probe: Were they successful? If not, why?
- Probe: If resources were not an issue, how would you improve data collection for the neurosurgery database?
- How would you improve data collection?
- Probe: Would additional staff help? If so, how would that help? What kind of staff?
Closing questions
- What else would you like to tell me about your experience with the DB?
- Is there anything I might have missed?