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Planning and Budgeting Practices Among Health Workers in Nairobi County, Kenya
(Uon, 2021)Health workers and managers planning and budgeting practices are unknown, yet they are key influencers of the processes. However, they rarely have the knowledge or participate in the process. This study investigated the ... -
Plasma and Urine Neutrophil Gelatinase Associated Lipocalin Levels as Markers of Acute Kidney Injury in Critically Ill Children Aged 1-12 Years at Kenyatta National Hospital (Nairobi).
(University of Nairobi, 2019)Background Acute kidney injury (AKI) refers to a form of kidney dysfunction that rapidly develops within 7 days or less, the resulting complications being metabolic, systemic and death in the extreme. Kidney damage in ... -
Plasma Norepinephrine In Patients Admitted In Congestive Heart Failure To The Kenyatta National Hospital.
(University of Nairobi, 1986) -
Plasma, urinary chloroquine levels and plasmodium falciparum parasitaemia in children treated for malaria at Kenyatta National Hospital.
(University of Nairobimedicine, 1985)Between June 1984 and February 1985, 32 patients with Plasmodium falciparum malaria were studied. They were aged between 3 months - 12 years. The clinical response, parasitaemia levels, plasma and urinary chloroquine ... -
A plastic anaemia at the Kenyatta National Hospital during the period 1973-1978
(University of Nairobipaediatrics and child health, 1979-07)A total of 54 patients were diagnosed and treated for plastic anaemia between July, 1973 to December 1978 at the Kenyatta National Hospital. The sex distribution was equal. Most of the age groups were affected with the ... -
Platelet counts in patients with rheumatoid arthritis at the Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, Kenya, 2012)Background: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a disease associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Thrombocytosis is one of the haematological manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis that occurs in active disease. ... -
Platelet functions, plasma fibrinolytic activity and coagulation screen findings in Africans with nephrotic syndrome without uraemia, as seen at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH)
(University Of NairobiDepartment of Medicine, 1981)In a nine months period,from March 1987 to November 1987, inc1usiv€, studies on p1ac21et functions, pla$ma fibrinolytic activity and coagulation screen were carried out in 40 patients (30 males and 10 females) with ... -
Platetet Functions,fibrinogen Levels And Vascular Disease In Diabetics At Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH)
(University of Nairobimedicine, 1982)Fifty diabetic patients (32 males: 18 females), mean age 53.7 years, attending the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) , Diabetic clinicand 29 controls (19 males : 10 females) , mean age 48 years, were the subjects of the ... -
Pleural Effusions In Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi - Prospective Study
(1981)70 adult patients presenting with pleural effusions at Kenyatta National Hospital, and Infectious Diseases Hospital, Tuberculosis Unit (KNH,IDH) adult service were studied and their findings are discussed. The ... -
Point Of Care Testing In Diabetic Patients: The Use Of Glycated Hemoglobin And Blood Glucose Assays And Their Application In Diabetic Mice Model
(University of Nairobi.College of health Sciences, 2009)This study aimed at using point of care testing for glycated hemoglobin and blood glucose assays to determine management of diabetes in patients at Nyeri provincial general hospital and the trends of the same in induced ... -
Point Prevalence Survey of Antibiotic Use Among Burn Patients at Kenyatta National Hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2018)Background: Burns are a global public health problem (ranked fourth of all injuries), accounting for an estimated 180,000 deaths annually. Infection is common in burns and can delay wound healing and encourage scarring. ... -
Polyarthritis in Kenya
(University of LondonMedicine, 1965)An attempt is made to describe the general physician's view of rheumatology in the African in Kenya with a review of findings elsewhere in tropical Africa. Osteoarthritis is excluded and monoarticular disease is only ... -
Polypharmacy and quality prescribing in geriatric patients – a case study of Nyeri provincial general hospital
(University of Nairobi, 2014)Polypharmacy is the use of multiple medicines (at least five types of medicines) to treat a single patient. Polypharmacy can have positive and negative consequences. Therefore, it is important to distinguish between ... -
Population Education Concepts in Kenya's Secondary School Education Systems: a Critical Examination
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The Population of and Family Planning in Uganda
(University of Nairobi, 1988) -
Portal hypertension: Aetiology and management at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya.
(University Of NairobiCollege of Health Sciences, 1986)One hundred and ninety three patients with portal hypertension were studied at the Kenyatta National Hospital during the period June 1976 to June 1986. There were 130 males and 63 females, aged between ... -
Possible correlation of extent of skin involvement with serum uric acid levels in patients with psoriasis at Kenyatta National Hospital - Nairobi.
(University of NairobiSchool of Medicine, 1981)94 patients with psoriasis were studied. It was found that psoriasis was rare before the third decade of life. Only 11.7% of patients were aged up to 20 years. No patient was found below the age of ten years. There was ... -
Possible mechanisms of thrombocytopaenia during schistosoma mansoni infection in the Mouse and in Man
(University of Nairobi, 1997)Schistosomiasis is a chronic debilitation and sometimes fatal disease which is estimated to affect at least 200 million people in the tropical and subtropical countries. -
Post -discharge, short term morbidity and mortality of chronic heart failure at Kenyatta national hospital
(2009)Objective: To ascertain the mortality and rehospitalization rates among patients discharged with a diagnosis of congestive cardiac failure. Design: Prospective observational study Setting: Kenyatta National Hospital, ... -
Post Caesarean Section Surgical Site Infection, Microbial Patterns and Sensitivity to Antibiotics Among Women Who Delivered at Kenyatta National Hospital Between 2014 and 2020.
(University of Nairobi, 2022)Introduction: Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common complication following a Caesarean section which places an emotional and physical burden to a mother and has a significant financial burden to the health care system. ...