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Exploring the feasibility of eHealth solutions to decrease delays in maternal healthcare in remote communities of Ghana
BACKGROUND: Despite the introduction of the Millennium Development Goal to reduce maternal deaths from 400 to 100 per 100,000 live …
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Antenatal care and opportunities for quality improvement of service provision in resource limited settings: A mixed methods study
Antenatal care is essential to improve maternal and newborn health and wellbeing. The majority of pregnant women in Tanzania attend …
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What makes or mars the facility-based childbirth experience: thematic analysis of women’s childbirth experiences in western Kenya
BACKGROUND: Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for approximately 66% of global maternal deaths. Poor person-centered maternity care, which emphasizes the quality of …
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Data-driven quality improvement in low-and middle-income country health systems: lessons from seven years of implementation experience across Mozambique, Rwanda, and Zambia
BACKGROUND: Well-functioning health systems need to utilize data at all levels, from the provider, to local and national-level decision makers, …
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Illness recognition and care seeking for maternal complications of pregnancy and birth in rural Amhara and Oromia Regional States of Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Ethiopia has made steady progress in improving maternal health over the decade, yet mortality remains high. The Maternal and …
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Obstetric fistulae in southern Mozambique: incidence, obstetric characteristics and treatment
BACKGROUND: Obstetric fistula is one of the most devastating consequences of unmet needs in obstetric services. Systematic reviews suggest that …
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Expanding malaria diagnosis and treatment in Lao PDR: lessons learned from a public–private mix initiative
BACKGROUND: As in other countries of the Greater Mekong Sub-region (GMS), the private health sector constitutes a significant avenue where …
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A complex intervention to improve implementation of World Health Organization guidelines for diagnosis of severe illness in low-income settings: a quasi-experimental study from Uganda
BACKGROUND: To improve management of severely ill hospitalized patients in low-income settings, the World Health Organization (WHO) established a triage …
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Severe maternal outcomes and quality of care at district hospitals in Rwanda– a multicentre prospective case-control study
BACKGROUND: Despite a significant decrease in maternal mortality in the last decade, Rwanda needs further progress in order to achieve …
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Urban-rural difference in satisfaction with primary healthcare services in Ghana
BACKGROUND: Understanding regional variation in patient satisfaction about healthcare systems (PHCs) on the quality of services provided is instrumental to …
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Aspects Épidémiologiques, Cliniques et Thérapeutiques des Crises Vaso-Occlusives chez les Enfants Drépanocytaires en Milieu Hospitalier à Yaoundé
ABSTRACT Introduction. The issue of vaso-occlusive crises in sickle cell children has always been a challenge, given the serious consequences …
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Improving oxygen therapy for children and neonates in secondary hospitals in Nigeria: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial
BACKGROUND: Oxygen is a life-saving, essential medicine that is important for the treatment of many common childhood conditions. Improved oxygen …
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Implementing the WHO integrated tool to assess quality of care for mothers, newborns and children: results and lessons learnt from five districts in Malawi
BACKGROUND: In 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) developed a new tool to be used to assess the quality of …
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Cost-effectiveness of an electronic clinical decision support system for improving quality of antenatal and childbirth care in rural Tanzania: an intervention study
BACKGROUND: QUALMAT project aimed at improving quality of maternal and newborn care in selected health care facilities in three African …
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Recentralization within decentralization: County hospital autonomy under devolution in Kenya
BACKGROUND: In 2013, Kenya transitioned into a devolved system of government with a central government and 47 semi-autonomous county governments. …
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Midwives’ and patients’ perspectives on disrespect and abuse during labor and delivery care in Ethiopia: a qualitative study
BACKGROUND: It is increasingly recognized that disrespect and abuse of women during labor and delivery is a violation of a …
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A process evaluation exploring the lay counsellor experience of delivering a task shared psycho-social intervention for perinatal depression in Khayelitsha, South Africa
BACKGROUND: Task sharing of psycho-social interventions for perinatal depression has been shown to be feasible, acceptable and effective in low …
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Improving health literacy through group antenatal care: a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND: To examine whether exposure to group antenatal care increased women's health literacy by improving their ability to interpret and …
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Factors associated with maternal mortality in Malawi: application of the three delays model
BACKGROUND: The three delays model proposes that maternal mortality is associated with delays in: 1) deciding to seek care; 2) …
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Patients’ satisfaction towards radiological service and associated factors in Hawassa University Teaching and referral hospital, Southern Ethiopia
BACKGROUND: Patient satisfaction, one of the main components of quality of care, is a crucial phenomenon for the overall health …