Community and District Empowerment for Scale-up (CODES): A complex district-level management intervention to improve child survival in Uganda: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

Trials

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Waiswa, Peter ^a,b   O'Connell, Thomas ^c   Bagenda, Danstan ^a,d,e   Mullachery, Pricila ^c   Mpanga, Flavia ^c   Henriksson, Dorcus Kiwanuka ^b,f   Katahoire, Anne Ruhweza ^g   Ssegujja, Eric ^a   Mbonye, Anthony K ^a,h   Peterson, Stefan Swartling ^a,f  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c UNICEF   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^g MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^h MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Bottleneck analysis; Child survival; Community monitoring; District strengthening; Evidence based; Health systems strengthening; LQAS; Management tools; Uganda

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EMPOWERMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MONITORING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGISTRATION; SCALE UP; UGANDA; AGE; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD WELFARE; CHILDHOOD MORTALITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; INFANT; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION; MALARIA; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; TIME FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD MORTALITY; CHILD WELFARE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIARRHEA; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; INTERSECTORAL COLLABORATION; MALARIA; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; UGANDA;

EID: 84960435516     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17456215     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13063-016-1241-4     Document Type: Article

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