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Maternal and neonatal data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries for maternal vaccines active safety surveillance systems: A scoping review

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth volume 21, Article number: 217 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

Most post-licensure vaccine pharmacovigilance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are passive reporting systems. These have limited utility for maternal immunization pharmacovigilance in LMIC settings and need to be supplemented with active surveillance. Our study’s main objective was to identify existing perinatal data collection systems in LMICs that collect individual information on maternal and neonatal health outcomes and could be developed to inform active safety surveillance of novel vaccines for use during pregnancy.

Methods

A scoping review was performed following the Arksey and O’Malley six-stage approach. We included studies describing electronic or mixed paper-electronic data collection systems in LMICs, including research networks, electronic medical records, and custom software platforms for health information systems. Medline PubMed, EMBASE, Global Health, Cochrane Library, LILACS, Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), and CINAHL were searched through August 2019. We also searched grey literature including through Google and websites of existing relevant perinatal data collection systems, as well as contacted authors of key studies and experts in the field to validate the information and identify additional sources of relevant unpublished information.

Results

A total of 11,817 records were identified. The full texts of 264 records describing 96 data collection systems were assessed for eligibility. Eight perinatal data collection systems met our inclusion criteria: Global Network’s Maternal Newborn Health Registry, International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health; Perinatal Informatic System; Pregnancy Exposure Registry & Birth Defects Surveillance; SmartCare; Open Medical Record System; Open Smart Register Platform and District Health Information Software 2. These selected systems were qualitatively characterized according to seven different domains: governance; system design; system management; data management; data sources, outcomes and data quality.

Conclusion

This review provides a list of active maternal and neonatal data collection systems in LMICs and their characteristics as well as their outreach, strengths, and limitations. Findings could potentially help further understand where to obtain population-based high-quality information on outcomes to inform the conduct of maternal immunization active vaccine safety surveillance activities and research in LMICs.

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Background

Spontaneous or passive reporting systems are a cornerstone of vaccine safety surveillance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) [1]. This type of reporting relies on health professionals, patients, or others reporting suspected adverse events to public health or governmental organization. These systems have several limitations, including potentially inconsistent diagnostic criteria, underreporting, varying data quality, lack of data to establish a denominator, and little or no background information [1, 2]. In of these limitations, the launch of new vaccines for immunization of pregnant women requires additional safety surveillance efforts to be in place, including active surveillance in pregnant women and newborns and other post-approval safety monitoring mechanisms. Active surveillance aims to detect adverse events on an ongoing basis within a defined group of people. It is especially useful in conjunction with the introduction of new vaccines. Using active surveillance systems, new vaccines in development for maternal immunization (e.g., respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), group B streptococcus (GBS) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) could achieve their main goal of reducing morbidity and mortality in newborns in an informed manner [3]. Traditionally, active surveillance systems in LMIC have been linked to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) and primarily focused on pediatric vaccines administered to children. For the evaluation of vaccine safety in pregnant women, maternal and neonatal data collection systems need to be leveraged to provide knowledge on background rates of pregnancy outcomes and newborn events. In the absence of an accurate background rate of an event, it is impossible to know if the adverse event is occurring at an expected or higher than expected rate. Having an established background rate would be further helpful for informing policies and designing active vaccine safety surveillance studies at sentinel sites [4, 5]. Perinatal outcomes information is generally unavailable in LMICs, due to many reasons, including the scarcity of resources and trained staff to support robust data collection systems, occurrence of vital and clinical events outside medical facilities, the lack of standardized, comprehensive, national registers and registration systems, inconsistencies among maternal newborn health outcome definitions, and the fact that medical records are often incomplete, poorly maintained and only paper based [1, 2, 6]. Lack of these records makes linking individual data from mother and their babies across systems cumbersome or sometimes impossible.

The Global Alignment of Immunization Safety Assessment in pregnancy (GAIA) project defined case definitions for main MNCH outcomes [7]. However, no sustainable answers are available on feasibility to implement them in the field [5, 7]. Various population-based surveys, surveillance systems, health information systems and perinatal data collection systems are already in place and could provide information on maternal and infant health in low-resource settings [8]. Mapping and harmonizing these existing platforms would allow LMICs to increase their ability to monitor relevant MNCH outcomes following maternal immunization.

There is an urgent need to develop or improve active safety surveillance of novel vaccines in pregnancy by understanding and adapting existing MNCH data collection systems. As part of a landscape analysis for integrated maternal immunization active safety surveillance and maternal data collection systems in LMICs, a scoping review was conducted to identify existing electronic and mixed paper-electronic data collection systems that register continuous and individual level MNCH data in LMICs with the potential to provide background data on diseases as well as record MNCH events/outcomes for active safety surveillance for novel maternal vaccines.

Methods

We included studies describing electronic or mixed paper-electronic data collection systems in LMICs, including research networks, electronic medical records, and custom software platforms for health information systems. Medline PubMed, EMBASE, Global Health, Cochrane Library, LILACS, Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), and CINAHL were searched through August 2019. We also searched grey literature including through Google and websites of existing relevant perinatal data collection systems, as well as contacted authors of key studies and experts in the field to validate information and identify additional sources of relevant unpublished information.

We performed a scoping review following the Arksey and O’Malley six-stage approach [9] and the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) statement guidelines and its extension for scoping reviews [10] (Additional file 1). The scoping review protocol was previously published in the Gates Open Research Journal [11].

Two main research questions guided the scoping review:

  • What existing prenatal and postnatal data collection systems are in place at the facility level and community level that could provide continuous, longitudinal, and individual information on maternal and neonatal health outcomes in LMICs?

  • Do existing prenatal and postnatal data collection systems have the capacity to inform active safety surveillance for maternal vaccines and other maternal health interventions?

Studies describing electronic or mixed paper-electronic perinatal data collection systems in LMICs, including research networks, electronic medical records, and custom software platforms for health information systems were included. Search strategies were run in databases (Medline, PubMed, EMBASE, Global Health, Cochrane Library, LILACS, Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS), and CINAHL) and Google through August 2019. Grey literature including websites of existing data collection systems were explored [11].

The PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR) flow diagram represents the formal literature review and screening process developed (Fig. 1). From those perinatal data collection systems identified in the full text article review, all specific data points published in the protocol [11] and listed in Table 1 were recorded.

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The PRISMA flow diagram details the selection process applied during the systematic literature search and review.

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Table 1 Data points abstracted from selected studies [11].
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A modified framework to assess and describe the final identified existing MNCH eligible health systems attributes was used based on frameworks available in the literature [12,13,14]. Governance; System design; Data management; Data sources, Outcomes and Data quality are the six domains used to present the extracted data points (Table 2).

Table 2 Framework: domains used to present the extracted data points
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The objectives of the consultation phase were to share preliminary findings and comparative analysis of final list of systems with experts in order to validate the domains used to describe the systems (Table 2) and the extracted data points (Table 1) from each system, as well as to identify additional grey sources of information.

Results

Study selection and characteristics

A total of 11,817 records including additional sources from reference lists and grey literature were identified. After removing duplicates, the 8,069 records left were screened by title and abstract, and 7,805 were considered irrelevant mainly because they were not related to MNCH data collection systems in LMICs. The full texts of 264 records describing 96 data collection systems were assessed for eligibility and finally, eight perinatal data collection systems (involving 165 reports) were included in qualitative synthesis (Figure 1). The included 165 reports were categorized as descriptive articles (51 published and 12 unpublished), published research studies related to the data collection systems (n=87), official system websites (n=7), user manuals or guides (n=3), and other web links that were not official systems websites (n=5). The most frequent reasons for excluding 99 reports were not collecting perinatal outcomes continuously at the individual-level (64), not currently capturing data (12) or not being a specific MNCH data collection system (9). The reasons for final exclusions of the potentially eligible systems are presented in Additional file 3.

The eight data collection systems finally selected were: 1) Global Network’s Maternal Newborn Health Registry (GN-MNHR), 2) International Network for the Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health (INDEPTH), 3) Perinatal Informatic System (SIP), 4) Pregnancy Exposure Registry & Birth Defects Surveillance (PER/BDS), 5) SmartCare, 6) Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS), 7) Open Smart Register Platform (OpenSRP) and 8) District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS 2) (see Table 3).

Table 3 Included data collection systems
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Regarding the geographic distribution of the systems, although they were implemented in many different countries and districts, not all sites captured individual maternal and neonatal data. Therefore, we only included the sites that met the objectives and inclusion criteria of our study. DHIS 2 tracker, GN-MHNR and INDEPTH are in sub-Sahara Africa and South Asia. Additionally, GN-MNHR is also located in Latin America and the Caribbean (Guatemala), DHIS 2 is in the Middle East and North Africa (West Bank and Gaza), and INDEPTH is in East Asia and the Pacific (Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam). PER/BDS is located only in South Africa. SmartCare is in Zambia and OpenSRP is in Indonesia and Pakistan. Finally, OpenMRS is located in Uganda, Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Kenya and Haiti.

Out of the 165 included reports: 86 (52.1%) were related to INDEPTH [16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82,83,84,85,86,87,88,89,90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101], 26 (15.7%) to Global Network [102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111,112,113,114,115,116,117,118,119,120,121,122,123,124,125,126,127], 24 (14.5%) to DHIS 2 [128,129,130,131,132,133,134,135,136,137,138,139,140,141,142,143,144,145,146,147,148,149,150,151], 9 (5.4%) to OpenMRS [152,153,154,155,156,157,158,159,160], 6 (3.6%) to SIP [161,162,163,164,165,166], 6 (3.6%) to OpenSRP [167,168,169,170,171,172], 4 (2.4%) to PER/BDS [173,174,175,176], and 4 (2.4%) to SmartCare [177,178,179,180].

Major findings by identified domain

Following the analysis of the extracted data, the eight included systems’ synthetized results were presented in seven domains: Governance; System design; System management; Data management; Data sources, Outcomes and Data quality (Tables 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9). Extracted data has been made available in a web-interactive App: http://safeinpregnancy.org/la_sc/table_by_domain.html#.

Table 4 Governance
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Table 5 System design
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Table 6 Data management
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Table 7 Data sources
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Table 8 Maternal outcomes
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Table 9 Maternal outcomes
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Governance (Table 4)

These systems are supported by different categories of institutions [181] such as private foundations (e.g., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Wellcome Trust, The Rockefeller Foundation, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, Hewlett Foundation), governmental agencies in high-income countries (e.g., United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Norad), global health initiatives (President’s Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief, The Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization), research councils (National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Medical Research Council), non-governmental organizations (Comic Relief), international organizations (World Health Organization /Pan America Health Organization, UNICEF), universities (Harvard University, University of Oslo), private sector organizations (GlaxoSmithKline, Qualcomm) and LMIC governments (South Africa National Department of Health) [14, 17, 37, 77, 103, 161, 178].

Some organizations were also responsible for the development and implementation of the included systems and are responsible for its optimal operability, such as the University of Oslo in the case of DHIS 2 [131], Partners in Health for OpenMRS [152], WHO for OpenSRP [170] and National Department of Health South Africa for PER/BDS [182] (Table 4). The majority of the systems demonstrated features that support the protection and privacy of collected information through anonymization of data, implementation of passwords before access, or external security (cybersecurity) [38, 77, 103, 131, 141, 154, 170, 177, 179]. Up to the search date, neither GN-MNHR nor SIP allowed for data encryption.

We were able to access the operating manuals, data forms, and documentation for six out of the eight systems [17, 103, 131, 152, 163, 170]; for SmartCare and PER/BDS these types of documents were not identified. Although most of the systems were designed for clinical care, some had been conceptualized for research such as GN-MNHR [106, 113, 119, 122, 123] or surveillance such as INDEPTH [46, 49, 77, 100] or PER/BDS [174]. Some of these were designed to satisfy more than one objective, and in the case of OpenMRS, this varied in different locations where the system is in place [130, 145, 152, 161, 170, 178].

System design (Table 5)

The type of license was free and open-source for four systems: DHIS 2 [131, 140], OpenSRP [170], OpenMRS [156] and PER/BDS [182]. SIP used a closed-code source [161] and GN-MNHR used a private license. Web-based platforms were the most frequently used [46, 49, 131, 140, 153, 156, 170]. However, the two systems GN-MNHR [103] and SIP [161, 163] still used local networks. No information on the type of license was recorded on SmartCare and INDEPTH.

Interoperability was assessed through the system’s ability to compile, transfer and export data, and integrate with other data sources, systems, individual and laboratory records, and/or national health record databases. The DHIS 2 [131, 132, 145, 146, 148], INDEPTH [17, 18, 21, 28, 35,36,37,38, 46, 58, 97, 100], SmartCare [177,178,179,180], OpenMRS [153, 154], OpenSRP [171] and PER/BDS [174] all have these capabilities. GN-MNHR [103, 108] and SIP [161, 163] systems showed lack of ability to link with National Health databases and clinical or laboratory records. All eight data collection systems demonstrated flexibility to add new variables.

Data were captured only at facilities in the system SIP [161], SmartCare [178] and PER/BDS [174, 182]. Data were captured both at the facility and community level for the systems DHIS 2 [144, 148], INDEPTH [49, 100], OpenMRS [152,153,154] and OpenSRP [170]. GD-MNHR only captured data at the community level [108, 113]. GD-MNHR only captured data at the community level [17, 33, 109, 123, 130, 131].

Data management (Table 6)

Although all of the included systems recorded data electronically [28, 49, 62, 85, 100, 108, 141, 145, 150, 152, 161, 169] and SmartCare [178, 179], used a mixed modality and initially captured data only on paper. Trained health providers, including nurses and doctors, collected the data in all systems. Only the DHIS 2 system through the MomConnect platform [140] allows pregnant women to enter information directly into the system through their smartphones. OpenSRP promotes a mobile health platform that allows health workers to register and track patient data [167].

GN-MNHR, INDEPTH, PER/BDS and SIP coordinated the data collection and validation across the sites [17, 103, 161, 182]. In contrast, DHIS 2, OpenMRS , OpenSRP and SmartCare offered a module and platform that each site can customize, modify, and adapt for use with total autonomy [131, 152, 170, 178].

The tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) was used to code outcomes and conditions by more than half of the systems: DHIS 2 [130, 131], INDEPTH [100], OpenMRS [154], SIP [161] and PER/BDS [176]. No information was found regarding how OpenSRP and SmartCare systems classified and coded outcomes. The GN-MNHR system does not use any standardized classification. Only INDEPTH had been used for phase IV safety trials and post-marketing surveillance by a maternal health research platform [17, 183].

Data sources (Table 7)

All the systems can collect patient data and longitudinally track pregnant women’ progress and their babies over the prenatal and postnatal periods. However, timing of capturing information from antenatal visits is different between the eight systems. GN-MNHR and INDEPTH collected antenatal care data retrospectively [17, 103]. GN-MNHR collected their data at enrollment and delivery [103], and INDEPTH collected past events by self-reported data from household visits [17].

Drug exposures during pregnancy were recorded widely (e.g., antimalarial and antiretroviral treatment, iron, folic acid and vitamins) [17, 68, 103, 114, 127, 150, 152, 165, 170, 178, 182]. Exposure to vaccines was also collected, mainly of certain vaccines related to pregnancy (Influenza, tetanus/pentavalent) as well as non-pregnancy related vaccines (Hepatitis B, BCG, Haemophilus influenzae type B) [17, 68, 103, 114, 127, 130, 152, 165, 170, 178, 182]. PER/BDS system showed the widest drug and vaccine exposure recording, and intends to increase the list during the registry’ s future national implementation [174, 175]. We did not find information about collecting this information for SmartCare.

Maternal and neonatal outcomes (Tables 8 and 9)

Twenty-nine MNCH outcomes in selected data collection systems were searched: 16 maternal outcomes and 13 neonatal outcomes. We did not find information about SmartCare regarding their recorded perinatal outcomes.

All systems collected vital data such as maternal and neonatal deaths. The most frequently recorded perinatal outcomes were fetal distress, postpartum hemorrhage, antenatal bleeding, dysfunctional labor, spontaneous abortion, congenital anomalies, neonatal infections, preterm birth, stillbirth, low birth weight, small for gestational age and respiratory distress. Some outcomes were not recorded by any of the selected systems, i.e., premature preterm rupture of membranes, preterm labor, insufficient cervix and neurodevelopmental delay [184].

The seven systems with available data recorded 13 to 22 perinatal outcomes out of a total of 29 perinatal outcomes. Of the 16 maternal outcomes evaluated, SIP [161, 163, 165] and GN-MNHR [108, 110, 113, 119, 122] registered more than 50% of outcomes (n=11 and n=10 respectively) , DHIS 2 [131, 142, 150], OpenMRS [154] and OpenSRP [168,169,170] registered 50% of outcomes (n=8 each) and INDEPTH [38, 46, 49, 68, 77, 100] and PER/BDS [182] less than 50% of outcomes (n=6 each).

Of the 13 neonatal outcomes evaluated, SIP [161, 165], PER/BDS [175], GN-MNHR [105, 106, 108, 113, 114, 119], DHIS 2 [138, 145, 146, 150] and INDEPHT [38, 46, 49, 56, 68, 100] registered more than 50%, (n=11, n=11, n=10, n=9 and n=7 respectively) and OpenMRS [152, 154] and OpenSRP [169, 170] less than 50% (n=6 and n=5 outcomes, respectively).

Data quality (Table 10)

This domain was evaluated by examining information on both external and internal quality control mechanisms used by data collection systems. Internal monitoring was the most frequently cited procedure, specifically pre-programmed checks to avoid incorrect data entry [29, 38, 103, 139, 152, 156, 170]. Regarding external monitoring, only half of the systems reported having the necessary structures to be subject to frequent auditing and manual reporting [28, 38, 45, 108, 113, 145]. Only three systems demonstrated internal and external quality controls (DHIS 2, GN-MNHR and INDEPTH).

Table 10 Data Quality
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Discussion

Through the present scoping review, 8,069 records were screened, and eight active data collection systems were identified. These systems continuously collect individual maternal and neonatal data in LMICs that can be leveraged for active safety surveillance of novel maternal vaccines.

Among the eight systems, seven systems are being used in countries in Africa, four in Asia and three in Latin America. Data collection systems served as research networks, perinatal electronic medical records, or a custom software platform for health information systems. The eight data collection systems showed variability regarding their governance, system design, data management, data sources, outcomes collected and data quality. Among these systems, all except SIP protected privacy of the information collected through anonymization of data. All systems except for GN-MNHR and SIP demonstrated interoperability capabilities and used web-based platforms. Data were recorded from antenatal care to postnatal period in all systems; however, GN-MNHR and INDEPTH collected antenatal visits data retrospectively. All systems collected vital data such as maternal and neonatal deaths as well as recorded exposure to vaccines and drugs during pregnancy. The most frequently recorded perinatal outcomes were fetal distress, postpartum hemorrhage, antenatal bleeding, dysfunctional labor, spontaneous abortion, congenital anomalies, neonatal infections, preterm birth, stillbirth abortion, low birth weight, small for gestational age, respiratory distress and failure to thrive, with variability among the systems. Any of the selected systems did not record the outcomes premature preterm rupture of membranes, preterm labor, insufficient cervix, and neurodevelopmental delay. GN-MNHR and INDEPTH coordinated the data collection and validation across their sites. In contrast, the rest of the systems offered a module and open-source platform that each site can customize, modify, and adapt for use with total autonomy. The tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD10) was used for coding outcomes and conditions by DHIS 2, INDEPTH, OpenMRS, SIP and PER/BDS. No information was found on how outcomes and conditions were coded for the systems OpenSRP and SmartCare. As far as we know, GN-MNHR system does not use any standardized classification.

One close antecedent to our study is the work published by Froen et al., who, using WHO frameworks, mapped electronic registries (eRegistries) for maternal and child health [185]. The authors conducted a web-based survey of public health officials in LMICs and a search of literature from 2005 to 2015 to assess country capacity, quality and data usage in reproductive health registries. Froen et al. found 32 paper and electronic registry systems in 23 countries, supporting commonly used electronic and mobile applications for health. During those years, countries were in transition from paper-based data collection to electronic systems but very few have integrated electronic backbone systems. A more detailed framework was used to assess and describe the existing and eligible attributes of MNCH health systems, focusing on electronic data collection systems [12]. Our broad search conducted in August 2019 identified three times the number of registries (n=96). In contrast with their findings, we assessed that only eight were proficient in informing active safety vaccine surveillance system.

Zuber and colleagues [7] created a map of MNCH initiatives that collected health information to monitor maternal and child interventions in LMICs. The reported programs collected maternal and child health aggregate data and were fragmented in governance and financing and were duplicated in several related initiatives. They could not link individual-level data from pregnant women and their offspring including the linkage across individual records and multiple registers and sources. An active safety surveillance system for maternal vaccines would require statistics and monitoring of health data that reflect mother-baby dyad, characteristics, conditions and events from pregnancy to childbirth and postpartum care collected systematically, longitudinal, individual and uniform way. Our findings demonstrate that there are at least eight existing types of perinatal data collection systems/platforms implemented successfully in LMICS and can scale-up and collect MNCH individual-level data that track mothers and their babies.

Post-marketing surveillance of drugs used during pregnancy have been carried out in LMICs. Particularly, during the dolutegravir surveillance in Botswana (2018), 134 congenital abnormalities were identified in pregnant women exposed to this drug. Of these, the majority (104 cases) came from post-marketing studies, and only a few from spontaneous reports. However, although reporting post-marketing surveillance is useful, it lacks the ability to calculate prevalence rates because the true denominator is not usually available and births without defects are also underreported in LMICs frequently [186]. Another example, the International Maternal Pediatric Adolescents AIDS Clinical Trials (IMPAACT) network has been conducting clinical trials of drugs used during pregnancy with the aim of reducing perinatal transmission of human immunodeficiency virus. Some of them were phase IV trials and have provided important information during post-marketing stage. However, as limitation of those studies and as with most clinical trials data collection systems, some conclusions obtained might not be entirely extrapolated to the real world, and very low incidence adverse effects might not be detected in them [187]. Concerning antimalarial surveillance, a prospective observational study using HDSS (INDEPTH system) conducted in Burkina Faso, Kenya and Mozambique has evaluated artemisinin exposure and monitoring in pregnant women. Although the methods described and used in this study have been relevant in the development of pharmacovigilance of drugs in pregnancy and baseline perinatal prevalence rates might be measured in the regions, they have had certain limitations in quality and feasibility to collect certain outcomes. With the exception of the Kenya site where active surveillance has been carried out, in the other sites it was not possible to detect early miscarriages as well as the early identification of pregnancy [98].

The main strengths of our study are that we followed established methods [9, 188], utilized an exhaustive search strategy that included an in-depth grey literature search, and consulted large group of experts in the field with experience in pharmacovigilance, vaccine safety monitoring, as well as MNCH in LMICs on the results of this review.

The study’s main limitations are the heterogeneous and incomplete available reporting, forcing us to look for multiple non-peer-reviewed reports and directly contact authors and data system authorities to obtain a complete picture of each system. On-site visits and interviews to key referents could improve the completeness of this information, although these methods were beyond the scope of our protocol. For example, quality of data, capacity for data sharing and prevalence of maternal and infant health outcomes in each site from each system could also be obtained during future site visits in order to supplement the findings of this review.

Another limitation of our study is related to the definitions of maternal and neonatal outcomes that each system reported as being measured. The GAIA case definitions were used as a guide in order to ensure extracting all relevant perinatal data outcomes. Due to the fact that many of these GAIA definitions are really complex and require a lot of information to be considered as correctly defined, we cannot affirm that the full case definitions in each system comply exactly with the parameters proposed by GAIA [184].

Our findings have important implications not only for safety surveillance in maternal vaccines but also for policymakers and other stakeholders committed to research in MNCH. The analytical framework used demonstrated that all of the data collection systems identified in LMICs showed strengths and weaknesses to varying extents. However, several of the data collection systems are ready to inform future active safety surveillance. Regarding data protection, although most LMICs have not adopted a specific legislation or a Data Protection Authority [15], seven out of eight systems in this review included an appropriate data protection process to protect personal information about women and their children to be used, intentionally or otherwise, for purposes other than understanding and informing the prevention of poor health outcomes or to measure the safety of vaccines. Variability in case definitions and diagnostic criteria across data sources, and among differing cultures and languages was presented as a challenge by experts. Lack of harmonization of case confirmation/classification among systems was also a defined problem in LMICs [7, 189]. However, among the eight data collection systems found in our review, seven used the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) codes for standardized reporting of diseases. This is a promising finding to advance the integration and harmonization of the collection of MNCH data across systems in LMICs. Further in-depth exploration of these systems will provide more details about their capacity.

Our work could help to recognize and overcome the highlighted knowledge gap regarding the existence and capacity of surveillance platforms in LMICs for novel maternal vaccines. Identifying individual MNCH data platforms for pregnancy and disease surveillance is the first key action needed to identify potential sentinel sites for implementing integrated active surveillance successfully.

Conclusion

We present a list of existing MNCH data capture systems in LMICs and describe in detail their characteristics, outreach, strengths, and limitations. This knowledge could potentially help policymakers, vaccine developers, researchers, and regulators to understand where to obtain population-based high-quality information on outcomes to inform and improve the conduct of vaccine active safety surveillance in LMICs.

Availability of data and materials

All data generated or analyzed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary information files.

Abbreviations

LMICS:

Low- and middle-income countries

MNCH:

Maternal neonatal and child health

GAIA:

Global Alignment of Immunization Safety Assessment in pregnancy

WHO:

World Health Organization

PRISMA:

Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses

GAVI:

Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization

GN-MNHR:

Global Network’s Maternal Newborn Health Registry

INDEPTH:

International Network for Demographic Evaluation of Populations and their Health

SIP:

Perinatal Informatic System

PER/BDS:

Pregnancy Exposure Registry & Birth Defects Surveillance

OpenMRS:

Open Medical Record System

OpenSRP:

Open Smart Register Platform

DHIS 2:

District Health Information Software 2

ICD10:

The tenth revision of the International Classification of Diseases

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank Andrea Meyer and Sarah Matthews for English editing. We could not have done this study without the collaboration and dedication of the Scoping Review Collaboration Group (author names and affiliation): Judith Absalon, MD, MPH (Pfizer, Inc); Steve Anderson, PhD, MPP (US Food & Drug Administration); Fernando Althabe, MD (World Health Organization); Shabir Madhi, MBBCh, FCPaeds, PhD (University of the Witwatersrand); Elizabeth McClure, PhD (Research Triangle Institute; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill); Flor M. Munoz, MD, MSc (Baylor College of Medicine); Kissa W. Mwamwitwa, Mpharm (Tanzania Medicines & Medical Devices Authority); Annettee Nakimuli, MD, MMed Obs&gyn, PhD (Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute); Jennifer Clark Nelson, PhD (Makerere University); Lisa Noguchi, PhD, CNM (Johns Hopkins University/Jhpiego); Lakshmi Panagiotakopoulos, MD, MPH (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention); Esperanca Sevene, MD, MSc, PhD (Eduardo Mondlane University); Patrick Zuber, MD (World Health Organization); Maria Belizan, MSC (Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy); Eduardo Bergel, PhD (Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy); Alvaro Ciganda, BSCS (Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy); Daniel Comande, BSc (Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy); and Veronica Pingray, MPH (Institute for Clinical Effectiveness and Health Policy).

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This work was funded by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) (INV008443). The funding agency had no role in the final decision to submit the manuscript. Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen (author affiliation: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) provided feedback on Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing.

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    Mabel Berrueta, Agustin Ciapponi, Ariel Bardach, Federico Rodriguez Cairoli & Fabricio J. Castellano

  2. Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, LA, 70112, USA

    Xu Xiong & Pierre Buekens

  3. University of Washington, Seattle, WA, 98195-7631, USA

    Andy Stergachis & Sabra Zaraa

  4. Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA

    Ajoke Sobanjo-ter Meulen

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MB: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing, Review and Editing. AC: Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing, Review and Editing. AB: Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing, Review and Editing. FRC: Investigation, Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing. FC: Investigation, Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing. XX: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing. AS: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing. SZ: Investigation, Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing. ASM: Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing. PB: Conceptualization, Funding Acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing, Review and Editing. Scoping Review Collaboration Group: Methodology, Writing, Review and Editing. All authors have approved the submitted version.

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Berrueta, M., Ciapponi, A., Bardach, A. et al. Maternal and neonatal data collection systems in low- and middle-income countries for maternal vaccines active safety surveillance systems: A scoping review. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 21, 217 (2021). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/s12884-021-03686-9

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