## Some types of errors detected

One common warning occurs when merging ward or patient data, when one of the two datasets has less detailed hospital data. In this situation, if you are sure that the hospital definitions relate to the same hospital, it would be safe to merge the data.

Errors detected by the data quality check (but not detected on data entry) include the following:

• The variable has_amu is reported as Yes, but there are no antimicrobial use data reported in the Antimicrobial use form.

• The variable has_hai is recorded as Yes, but there are no healthcare-associated data reported in the HAI form.

• In the Light protocol only:

• A warning is generated when the user did not report denominator data by consultant/patient speciality for a given ward survey.

• An error is generated if the total of the denominator data by consultant/patient speciality does not equal the value of Total number of patients in ward for a given ward survey.

• An error is generated if the consultant/patient specialty of a patient does not have a corresponding consultant/patient specialty record at the ward level.

More:

Running a data quality check

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