Mortality related to acute illness and injury in rural Uganda: task shifting to improve outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the dual critical shortages of acute care and healthcare workers in resource-limited settings, many people suffer or die from conditions that could be easily treated if existing resources were used in a more timely and effective manner. In order to address this preventable morbidity and mortality, a novel emergency midlevel provider training program was developed in rural Uganda. This is the first study that assesses this unique application of a task-shifting model to acute care by evaluating the outcomes of 10,105 patients.

Methods

Nurses participated in a two-year training program to become midlevel providers called Emergency Care Practitioners at a rural district hospital. This is a retrospective analysis of the Emergency Department's quality assurance d

SUBMITTER: Chamberlain S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4388510 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature