Implementing locally appropriate guidelines and training to improve care of serious illness in Kenyan hospitals: A story of scaling-up (and down and left and right)

Archives of Disease in Childhood

Volumn 96, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 285-290

  English, Mike ^a,b   Wamae, Annah ^c   Nyamai, Rachel ^d   Bevins, Bill ^a,e   Irimu, Grace ^a,f  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation   (Kenya)

^d Ministry of Medical Services   (Kenya)

^e Institute for Family Medicine   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; KENYA; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; REVIEW; SCALE UP;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; KENYA; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 79951673894     PISSN: 00039888     EISSN: 14682044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2010.189126     Document Type: Review

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