Explaining the uptake of paediatric guidelines in a kenyan tertiary hospital - Mixed methods research

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 14, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Irimu, Grace W ^a,b,c   Greene, Alexandra ^d   Gathara, David ^b,c   Kihara, Harrison ^e   Maina, Christopher ^e   Mbori Ngacha, Dorothy ^a   Zurovac, Dejan ^b,c,f,g   Santau, Migiro ^h   Todd, Jim ⁱ   English, Mike ^a,b,c,j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^b KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^c Child Health University of Dundee ^*  (Kenya)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE   (United Kingdom)

^e KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^g BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^h MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

ⁱ LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^j UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Complex adaptive system; Ethnographic; Guidelines; Hospital leadership; Implementation; Mixed methods research; Performance

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMAN; KENYA; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PEDIATRICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERTIARY CARE CENTER;

CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 500 AND OVER; HUMANS; KENYA; PEDIATRICS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84898493509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-119     Document Type: Article

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