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Pediatric post-discharge mortality in resourcepoor countries: A protocol for an updated systematic review and meta-analysis
(PLoS ONE, 2023)
Background: More than 50 countries, mainly in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, are not on course to meet the neonatal and under-five mortality target set by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030. One ...
Mortality after hospital discharge among children younger than 5 years admitted with suspected sepsis in Uganda: a prospective, multisite, observational cohort study
(The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, 2023)
Background: Substantial mortality occurs after hospital discharge in children younger than 5 years with suspected sepsis, especially in low-income countries. A better understanding of its epidemiology is needed for effective ...
The PAediatric Risk Assessment (PARA) Mobile App to Reduce Postdischarge Child Mortality: Design, Usability, and Feasibility for Health Care Workers in Uganda
(JMIR mHealth and uHealth, 2016)
Background: Postdischarge death in children is increasingly being recognized as a major contributor to overall child mortality. The PAediatric Risk Assessment (PARA) app is an mHealth tool developed to aid health care ...
Circumstances of child deaths in Mali and Uganda: a community-based confidential enquiry
(The Lancet Global Health, 2009)
Background Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved, causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a community enquiry into the circumstances of death could ...
Pediatric out-of-hospital deaths following hospital discharge
(African Health Sciences, 2016)
Background: Out-of-hospital death among children living in resource poor settings occurs frequently. Little is known about the location and circumstances of child death following a hospital discharge.
Objectives: This ...
A cohort study of morbidity, mortality and Health seeking behavior following rural Health center visits by children under 12 in Southwestern Uganda
(2015-01-30)
Background
Children discharged from hospitals in developing countries are at high risk of morbidity and
mortality. However, few data describe these outcomes among children seen and discharged
from rural outpatient ...
Scheduled Follow-Up Referrals and Simple Prevention Kits Including Counseling to Improve Post-Discharge Outcomes Among Children in Uganda: A Proof-of-Concept Study
(Global Health: Science and Practice, 2016)
Background: Recurrent illness following hospital discharge is a major contributor to childhood mortality in resource poor countries. Yet post-discharge care is largely ignored by health care workers and policy makers due ...
Pneumonia in HIV-Exposed and Infected Children and Association with Malnutrition
(Pediatr Infect Dis J, 2019-10)
We evaluated the association between HIV exposed-uninfected (HEU) status, malnutrition, and risk of death in Ugandan children hospitalized with pneumonia. Both HIV exposure and infection were associated with lower ...
Application of sepsis definitions to pediatric patients admitted with suspected infections in Uganda
(A journal of the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the World Federation of Pediatric Intensive and Critical Care Societies, 2017-05)
Objectives: Acute infectious diseases are the most common cause of under-5 mortality. However, the hospital burden of non-neonatal pediatric sepsis has not previously been described in the resource poor setting. The objective ...
Paediatric postdischarge mortality in developing countries: a systematic review
(BMJ Open, 2018)
Objectives: To update the current evidence base on paediatric postdischarge mortality (PDM) in developing countries. Secondary objectives included an evaluation of risk factors, timing and location of PDM.
Design: Systematic ...