Performance of health workers in the management of seriously sick children at a Kenyan tertiary hospital: before and after a training intervention.

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.We co...

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Main Authors: Grace W Irimu, David Gathara, Dejan Zurovac, Harrison Kihara, Christopher Maina, Julius Mwangi, Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, Jim Todd, Alexandra Greene, Mike English
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3409218?pdf=render