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Quality of hospital care for sick newborns and severely malnourished children in Kenya: A two-year descriptive study in 8 hospitals.
(2011-11-11)
Background
Given the high mortality associated with neonatal illnesses and severe malnutrition and the development of packages of interventions that provide similar challenges for service delivery mechanisms we set out ...
Factors influencing performance of health workers in the management of seriously sick children at a Kenyan tertiary hospital - participatory action research
(University of Nairobi, 2014-02-07)
Background
Implementation of World Health Organization case management guidelines for serious childhood illnesses remains a challenge in hospitals in low-income countries. Facilitators of and barriers to implementation ...
Implementing locally appropriate guidelines and training to improve care of serious illness in Kenyan hospitals: a story of scaling-up (and down and left and right)
(2011)
Inadequate health systems are now widely recognised as major barriers to improved newborn and child survival and achieving Millennium Development Goal 4 that calls for a two-thirds reduction in under 5 mortality in low-income ...
Implementation of a structured paediatric admission record for district hospitals in Kenya - results of a pilot study
(2006-07-20)
Abstract
Background
The structured admission form is an apparently simple measure to improve data quality. Poor motivation, ...
An intervention to improve paediatric and newborn care in Kenyan district hospitals: Understanding the context
(2009-07-23)
Abstract
Background
It is increasingly appreciated that the interpretation of health systems research studies is greatly facilitated ...
A Multifaceted Intervention to Implement Guidelines and Improve Admission Paediatric Care in Kenyan District Hospitals: A Cluster Randomised Trial
(2011)
In developing countries referral of severely ill children from primary care to district hospitals is common, but hospital care is often of poor quality. However, strategies to change multiple paediatric care practices in ...
Hospital outcomes for paediatric pneumonia and diarrhoea patients admitted in a tertiary hospital on weekdays versus weekends: a retrospective study
(2013)
Background:
Quality of patient care in hospitals has been shown to be inconsistent during weekends and night-
time hours, and is often associated with reduced patient monitoring, poor antibiotic prescription practices ...
Bacteremia among Children Admitted to a Rural Hospital in Kenya
(Universty of Nairobi, 2005-01)
There are few epidemiologic data on invasive bacterial infections among children in sub-Saharan Africa. We studied every acute pediatric admission to a rural district hospital in Kenya to examine the prevalence, incidence, ...
Computer aided learning to link evidence to paediatric learning and practice: a pilot in a medical school in a low income setting
(2010)
Bridging the gap between research evidence and practice is problematic in low income settings. Wereport medical students' experience with a pilot computer aided learning (CAL) program developed to enable students to explore ...
Implementation experience during an eighteen month intervention to improve paediatric and newborn care in Kenyan district hospitals
(2009-07-23)
Abstract
Background
We have conducted an intervention study aiming to improve hospital care for children and newborns in Kenya. In ...