Laboratory Quality Assessments in Bihar Medical Colleges

10 government medical colleges and hospitals in Bihar, India, were assessed using a WHO tool adapted by the Integrated Disease Surveillance Program. Baseline data was collected between December 2022 and August 2023, followed by interventions and a follow-up assessment from February to May 2025. The dataset likely contains scores or metrics from the assessment tool, tracking changes in laboratory functioning and diagnostic services.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the impact of technical assistance and training on laboratory quality metrics
• Analyzing baseline versus follow-up performance across different assessment domains
• Studying the implementation of a WHO assessment tool adapted for a specific national context

Strengths

• Covers a specific, defined set of 10 medical colleges and hospitals
• Includes longitudinal pre- and post-intervention data collected over a ~2.5 year period
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse

Limitations

• Column names and specific data structure are not provided in the metadata
• The study design is a quasi-experiment without a parallel control group, limiting causal inference
• Metadata from different platforms shows a slight conflict in the last updated date (2026-03-24 vs. 2026-04-13)

Provenance

Source

Navneet Ranjan

Collection Method

Quasi-experimental pre-post implementation study using the WHO Health Facility Laboratory Assessment Tool (adapted for India by IDSP).

Time Range

December 2022 to May 2025

Freshness

Last updated in April 2026.

Geography

Bihar state, India