Curating maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) datasets for spatiotemporal data analytics

TL;DR

This paper describes curated maternal, neonatal, and child health datasets from Nigeria, including spatiotemporal data for research and policy.

Contribution

The novel contribution is the curation and detailed documentation of MNCH datasets with GPS data for spatiotemporal analysis.

Findings

The datasets include 538 maternal, 720 neonatal, and 425 child records from 2014 to 2019.

Variables like GPS data were captured to support demographic and spatiotemporal analysis.

Data privacy was maintained by replacing personal identifiers with patient numbers.

Abstract

We provide in this Data Note the details of maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) datasets curated directly from patients’ medical records; comprising 538 maternal, 720 neonatal and 425 child records, captured at St Luke’s General Hospital, Anua, Uyo, Nigeria, from 2014 to 2019. Variables included in the datasets are gender, age, class of patient (mother/infant/child), LGA (local government area), diagnosis, symptoms, prescription, blood pressure (mm Hg), temperature (degree centigrade), and weight (Kg). The purpose of this publication is to describe the datasets for researchers who may be interested in its reuse (for analysis, research, quality assurance, policy formulation/decision, patient safety, and more). The curated datasets also involved the capturing of location information (GPS: global positioning system data) from the study area, to aid spatiotemporal and informed demographic analysis. We detail the methods used to curate the datasets and describe the protocol of variables selection and processing. For reasons of data privacy, some patients’ personal information such as names were replaced with patient numbers (a sequence generated using Microsoft Excel). Furthermore, the addresses/locations of the patients, date of visit, latitude, longitude, elevation, and GPS accuracy are restricted. Restricted data can be made available to readers after a formal request to the corresponding author (see data restriction statement). The curated datasets are available at the
Open Science Framework.

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