The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - Health Organization Performance (HOP) Survey Database
JHSPH approached WebFirst with a challenge: how can we easily survey health clinics in developing countries and compare performance measures of the various health care organizations? For example, JHSPH would like to know how a community health clinic in Africa stacks up against their peers – do they have community based services, do they continuously train their staff, are they committed to process improvement, and are they funded?
WebFirst created a web-based survey where a variety of healthcare service providers (community health clinics, healthcare providers, hospitals and other agencies) can easily and quickly enter information that fully describes their operations. These providers will fill out a short registration form, receive a password, and login to their survey. They can enter partial information and return and login at any time to pick up from where they left off.
The data will be exported in a statistical package format and provide range and logic checks, skips and fills and single vs. multiple responses for the survey. WebFirst is in the process of training the Data Entry Team. The staff will use SPSS and STATA to analyze the datasets. WebFirst used ASP.NET with SQL Server in the development of the HOP database project.
