Critical care capacity and care bundles on medical wards in Malawi: a cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

As low-income countries (LICs) shoulder a disproportionate share of the world's burden of critical illnesses, they must continue to build critical care capacity outside conventional intensive care units (ICUs) to address mortality and morbidity, including on general medical wards. A lack of data on the ability to treat critical illness, especially in non-ICU settings in LICs, hinders efforts to improve outcomes.

Methods

This was a secondary analysis of the cross-sectional Malawi Emergency and Critical Care (MECC) survey, administered from January to February 2020, to a random sample of nine public sector district hospitals and all four central hospitals in Malawi. This analysis describes inputs, systems, and barriers to care in district hospitals compared to cen

SUBMITTER: Connolly E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10557270 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature