• Birama Apho Ly, Marie-Pierre Gagnon, France Légaré, David Simonyan, Michel Rousseau, and Karim Dembélé.
• Institut de Recherche sur la Santé des Populations, Université d'Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• Mali Med. 2014 Jan 1; 29 (2): 22-32.

ObjectivesTo determine the prevalence of missing data in the medical registers held by the physicians of Bamako's community health centres, and identify physicians' characteristics associated with the prevalence.MethodologyA cross-sectional and exploratory study was conducted between January and February 2011. The study population consisted of doctors, and data from their medical consultations. The sample was selected using three-stage sampling. Data were collected through closed-ended questionnaire and record counting. Data analysis was descriptive and analytic.ResultsThe study involved 32 doctors and data from 3072 medical consultations. Physicians were predominantly male (87.5%). The prevalence of missing data ranged from 0.1% to 95.4% and was higher for diagnoses (15.5%), treatments (17.3%) and observations (95.4%). Missing diagnoses were determined by the number of years in the position, and the number of years of service. Missing treatments were determined by data management training, the number of years in the position and the number of years of service.ConclusionThe extent of missing diagnoses, missing treatments and missing observations raise doubts on the quality of health information, effectiveness of health decisions and effectiveness of health interventions.Le comitée de rédaction se réserve le droit de revoyer aux auteurs avant toute soumission à l'avis des lecteurs les manuscrits qui ne seraient pas conformes à ces modalités de présentation. En outre il leur conseille de sonserver un examplaire du manuscrit, des figures et des tableaux.

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