Opportunities and barriers in paediatric pulse oximetry for pneumonia in low-resource clinical settings: a qualitative evaluation from Malawi and Bangladesh.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To gain an understanding of what challenges pulse oximetry for paediatric pneumonia management poses, how it has changed service provision and what would improve this device for use across paediatric clinical settings in low-income countries.

Design

Focus group discussions (FGDs), with purposive sampling and thematic analysis using a framework approach.

Setting

Community, front-line outpatient, and hospital outpatient and inpatient settings in Malawi and Bangladesh, which provide paediatric pneumonia care.

Participants

Healthcare providers (HCPs) from Malawi and Bangladesh who had received training in pulse oximetry and had been using oximeters in routine paediatric care, including community healthcare workers, non-physician clinicians or medical assi

SUBMITTER: King C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829842 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature