Can an mhealth clinical decision-making support system improve adherence to neonatal healthcare protocols in a low-resource setting?

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study assessed health workers' adherence to neonatal health protocols before and during the implementation of a mobile health (mHealth) clinical decision-making support system (mCDMSS) that sought to bridge access to neonatal health protocol gap in a low-resource setting.

Methods

We performed a cross-sectional document review within two purposively selected clusters (one poorly-resourced and one well-resourced), from each arm of a cluster-randomized trial at two different time points: before and during the trial. The total trial consisted of 16 clusters randomized into 8 intervention and 8 control clusters to assess the impact of an mCDMSS on neonatal mortality in Ghana. We evaluated health workers' adherence (expressed as percentages) to birth asphyxia, neon

SUBMITTER: Amoakoh HB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7694934 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature