A 2017-18 qualitative study collected audio recordings and transcripts from interviews and focus group discussions with non-physician clinicians, remote physicians, and health system stakeholders in Turkana County, Kenya. The data explores the impact of an asynchronous teleconsultation service that supported over 100 consultations across 22 facilities. The study was conducted by Pratap Kumar and harvested by QDR.
Use Cases
- Analyzing themes of improved communication and teamwork among providers based on interview transcripts.
- Studying perceived efficiency gains and reduced unnecessary referrals from stakeholder discussions.
- Exploring the impact of mobile technology on healthcare access in remote communities based on qualitative data.
- Investigating professional satisfaction and capacity building for non-physician clinicians from focus group data.
Strengths
- Includes data from multiple stakeholder groups: non-physician clinicians, remote physicians, and county health managers.
- Focuses on a specific implementation supporting over 100 teleconsultations across 22 clinics and hospitals.
- Uses Appreciative Inquiry, a strengths-based qualitative methodology.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single county in Kenya.
Provenance
- Source
- QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Key informant interviews and focus group discussions.
- Time Range
- 2017-2018
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-04 07:16:15; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Turkana County, Kenya