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The effect of depo-provera on the platelet function, plasma fibrinogen concentration and haemoglobin level in women attending the family planning clinic at Kenyatta national hospital, Nairobi.
(Department of Medicine, University of Nairobi, 1993)The effect of "Depo-Provera" on the platelet function, plasma fibrinogen concentration and Hamoglobin level in 75 women attending the family planning clinic at Kenyatta National Hospital was studied. A similar number of ... -
Effect Of Ethnicity, Religion And Social Structures On Entreprenual Culture Amongst Smes In Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2016) -
The Effect Of Free Delivery Services On Partograph Utilization At Naivasha District Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2016)Background: The Kenyan Maternal Mortality Ratio is estimated at 488/100,000 live births. Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5 to reduce child mortality and improve maternal health, remain important global health challenges ... -
Effect Of Free Maternity Services On Maternal Nearmiss Morbidity Among Women Delivering At Embu County Referral Hospital – A Quasi Experimental Study.
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: Healthcare cost is a major barrier to access of essential maternal services in the developing world. On 1st June 2013, Kenya introduced Free Maternity Services (FMS) in an effort to promote access and improve ... -
Effect of fresh aqueous garlic extract (allium sativum longicupis) on erythropoiesis in adult male rabbits
(School of Medicine, University of Nairobi, 2008-10) -
Effect of giving Birth Before Arrival (BBA) on pregnancy outcome among booked mothers at Coast Provincial and General Hospital (CPGH)
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 2013)Background: Birth before arrival (BBA) at hospital delivery unit is still common even in modern obstetric practice and it carries significant adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes all over the world but more so in low ... -
Effect of government ownership on financial performance: a survey of partially privatized firms listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange (NSE).
(University of Nairobi, 2011)Despite massive literature on effects of governments' ownership, there is still no consensus on the impact of government ownership/control on firm performance. The objective of the study was to assess the effect of government ... -
Effect of implementing quality management systems on surgical patient care: experience of Moi teaching and referral hospital
(School of Nursing, 2013)Background.There is pressure for hospitals to adopt tool that can help them address the challenges facing the delivery of health care services. Quality management systems (QMS) are being adopted for this purpose. ... -
Effect of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness Pneumonia Guideline Training on Health Workers Uptake of Oral Amoxicillin Among Children Aged 2-59 Months at Three Health Facilities in Nairobi County.
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Background In 2014, WHO re-classified childhood pneumonia syndromes. The new classification included; severe pneumonia, pneumonia, and no pneumonia(1). The class of pneumonia (non-severe) involved both age-specific tachypnea ... -
The effect of intestinal schistosomiasis on the haemoglobin levels in primary school children in Makueni District - Kenya
(University of NairobiDepartment of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, 2007)Background:Chronic morbidity is one of the major impacts of schistosomiasis in Kenya. Anaemia in children and women of childbearing age is mainly attributed to malaria, nutrition-status and other helminthes worms there-fore ... -
The Effect Of Intraoperative Co-Administration Of Ringers Lactate Combined With 0.9% Normal Saline On Serum Electrolytes And Lactate In Patients Undergoing Elective Craniotomy
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background Intravenous fluids are used in virtually all surgical specialties for fluid maintenance. The most common fluids used are 0.9% Normal Saline and Ringers Lactate. In the neurosurgical patients, the osmotic force ... -
Effect of Intrapartum Normal Saline and Dextrose-saline Infusion on Course of Labour and Neonatal Outcomes Among Nulliparous Women in Kenyatta National Hospital
(2022)ABSTRACT Background: Labor is associated with an increased demand for energy due to increased skeletal and smooth muscle contractions. Adequate hydration and optimal glucose levels improves muscle performance during vaginal ... -
The effect of isotonic nasal saline irrigation on chronic rhinosinusitis symptoms in adult patients at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)Background: Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is inflammation of the sinonasal tract for longer than 12 weeks. Patients present with nasal blockage, facial pain, nasal secretions, and malaise. Nasal saline has been used as ... -
Effect of Magnesium Sulphate in mothers suffering from toxemia of pregnancy and their neonates
(2014)Background About 10% of all pregnancies are complicated by hypertension especially the first pregnancies of women older than 35 years or those with multiple foetuses and this can be fatal in severe cases due to convulsions ... -
Effect of maternal HIV status on breast milk intake and growth of HIV-uninfected Kenyan infants at 6 weeks post-partum and 6 months of age
(2015)Background: All infants irrespective of their HIV status and that of their mothers should be exclusively breastfed in their first half of infancy. It is however not well known if infants‟ exposure to maternal HIV infection ... -
The effect of maternal near miss on the prevalence of post natal depression compared to normal pregnancy within one year of delivery at the Kenyatta National Hospital.
(University of Nairobi, 2020)BACKGROUND Maternal morbidity is not as well studied and documented as maternal mortality. One of the new frontiers in quality of care assessment and improvement in maternal and new-born health is conducting Maternal Near ... -
The Effect of Mortality on Fertility in Kenya:a District Level Analysis
(University of Nairobi, 1992) -
Effect of National Government Cash Transfer Program on Level Poverty in Kenya: a Case Study of Cash Transfer Projects in Wajir County
(University of Nairobi, 2019)The point of the examination was to explore the impact of national government money move program on the degree of neediness in Kenya: a contextual investigation of Wajir County. The particular targets were to distinguish ... -
The effect of native cassava starch on the disintegration of formulated paracetamol tablets
(2010)The project involved the use of extracted cassava starch from raw cassava tubers as a disintegrant in the manufacture of tablets. However, there was also manufacture of tablets using industrial corn starch. The tablets ...