Assessment of documented adherence to critical actions in paediatric emergency care at a district-level public hospital in South Africa.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The provision of high-quality care is vital to improve child health and survival rates. A simple, practice-based tool was recently developed to evaluate the quality of paediatric emergency care in resource-limited settings in Africa. This study used the practice-based tool to describe the documented adherence to critical actions in paediatric emergency care at an urban district-level hospital in South Africa and assess its relation to clinical outcomes.

Methods

This study is a retrospective observational study covering a 19-month period (September 2017 to March 2019). Patients <13 years old, presenting to the emergency centre with one of six sentinel presentations (seizure, altered mental status, diarrhoea, fever, respiratory distress and polytrauma) were eligib

SUBMITTER: Berends EA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7910169 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature