The Tafika Project brings together a consortium of clinicans and developers who are passionate about strengthening surgical care systems nationally in Malawi.
This will be tackled in three stages: mapping patient journeys through different surgical healthcare systems to understand where improvements and safety measures can be implemented; building these findings into an integrated national electronic records platform; establishing robust systems of follow-up and data collection to improve patient outcomes.
We are applying for funding to the Scottish Government Malawi Development Programme, and this website acts as a point of contact and information for consortium partners and other interested parties.
Patient-pathway mapping is a new and important form of clinical audit that examines how we manage the patient journey, using the patient’s perspective to identify problems and suggest improvements and safety measures.
Open MRS is a community of developers who have have built the world's leading open source enterprise electronic medical record system platform. It is now widely used in Malawi, but must be developed to encompass all hospital specialties. Quality improvement and patient safety will be built into surgery-specific modules that link-up nationwide.
We can only improve surgical care if we understand which treatments are successful in which patients. Tafika will help the follow-up of children and adults after surgery and contribute to longer term improvements in outcomes.
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