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Performance of health workers in the management of seriously sick children at a Kenyan tertiary hospital: before and after a training intervention.
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BACKGROUND: Implementation of WHO case management guidelines for serious common childhood illnesses remains a challenge in hospitals in low-income countries. The impact of locally adapted clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) on the quality-of-care of patients in tertiary hospitals has rarely been evaluated. METHODS AND FINDINGS: We conducted, in Kenyatta National Hospital, an uncontrolled before and after study with an attempt to explore intervention dose-effect relationships, as CPGs were dis...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1371/journal.pone.0039964
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University of Nairobi
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Wellcome Trust
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Kenyatta National Hospital
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- Public Library of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- PloS one Journal website
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 7
- Article number:
- e39964
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
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1932-6203
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1932-6203
- Source identifiers:
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345653
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- English
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- pubs:345653
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- 2012-12-19
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- Irimu et al
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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- Copyright Irimu et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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