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Hospital managers’ views on the state of patient safety culture across three regions in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Improving patient safety culture in healthcare organisations contributes positively to the quality of care and patients' attitudes toward care. …
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Mental health task-sharing in South Africa – a role for clinical associates?
BACKGROUND: South Africa (SA) lacks the specialised workforce needed to provide mental health services particularly in the public sector and …
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Unintended medication discrepancies and associated factors upon patient admission to the internal medicine wards: identified through medication reconciliation
BACKGROUND: Medication reconciliation (MedRec) is a widely accepted tool for the identification and resolution of unintended medication discrepancies (UMD). OBJECTIVE: …
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Parental satisfaction and its associated factors towards neonatal intensive care unit service: a cross-sectional study
BACKGROUND: Parental satisfaction is a well-established outcome indicator and tool for assessing a healthcare system's quality, as well as input …
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Evaluating the effects of supplementing ward nurses on quality of newborn care in Kenyan neonatal units: protocol for a prospective workforce intervention study
BACKGROUND: Data from High Income Countries have now linked low nurse staff to patient ratios to poor quality patient care. …
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Correction: The direct cost incurred by patients and caregivers in diagnosing and managing prostate cancer in Ghana
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Opportunities and considerations for the design of decentralized delivery of antiretroviral therapy for female sex workers living with HIV in South Africa
BACKGROUND: In South Africa, 60% of female sex workers (FSW) are living with HIV, many of whom experience structural and …
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Employment status of AFROHUN-Uganda one health alumni, and facilitators and barriers to application of the one health approach: a tracer study
BACKGROUND: The One Health (OH) approach integrates multiple competencies in the prevention and control of disease outbreaks. Through a range …
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Exploring the impact of health worker strikes on maternal and child health in a Kenyan county
BACKGROUND: Studies of the impact of health care workers' strikes tend to look at facility-level activity rather than populations, with …
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The contribution of social norms and religious practices towards low death registration in 3 HDSS sites of Uganda
BACKGROUND: Uganda has low levels of death registration, estimated at two per cent by the National Identification and Registration Authority …
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Factors impacting—stillbirth and neonatal death audit in Malawi: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: Over one million babies are stillborn or die within the first 28 days of life each year due to …
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Building leadership and managerial capacity for maternal and newborn health services
BACKGROUND: Strengthening leadership and management is important for building an effective and efficient health system. This paper presents the findings …
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Perceived barriers and enablers influencing health extension workers toward home-based hypertension screening in rural northwest Ethiopia: interpretive descriptive study
BACKGROUND: Hypertension, a major but modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, is a global health problem including Ethiopia. In a …
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Level of satisfaction and sexual and reproductive health needs of deaf persons in Ghana: a sequential explanatory mixed method study
BACKGROUND: The intersection between deafness and culture in sub-Saharan African contexts such as Ghana has culminated in restricted access to …
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“Death audit is a fight” – provider perspectives on the ethics of the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) system in Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Maternal and neonatal health are regarded as important indicators of health in most countries. Death auditing through, for example, …
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Status of the latest 2016 World Health Organization recommended frequency of antenatal care contacts in Sierra Leone: a nationally representative survey
BACKGROUND: Timely and increased frequency of quality antenatal care (ANC) contacts is one of the key strategies aimed at decreasing …
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Exploring the why: risk factors for HIV and barriers to sexual and reproductive health service access among adolescents in Nigeria
BACKGROUND: Early sexual debut, low educational attainment, history of rape and transactional and intergenerational sex have been associated with HIV …
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Changes in on-time vaccination following the introduction of an electronic immunization registry, Tanzania 2016-2018: interrupted time-series analysis
BACKGROUND: Digital health interventions (DHI) have the potential to improve the management and utilization of health information to optimize health …
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Rehabilitation workforce descriptors: a scoping review
BACKGROUND: A comprehensive, accurate description of workforce capacity is important for health service planning, to ensure that health services meet …
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Availability of services for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility in The Gambia`s public and private health facilities: a cross-sectional survey
BACKGROUND: Infertility is a long-standing reproductive health issue, which affects both men and women worldwide and it is especially problematic …