Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals: a multisite, retrospective, cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most of the deaths among neonates in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) can be prevented through universal access to basic high-quality health services including essential facility-based inpatient care. However, poor routine data undermines data-informed efforts to monitor and promote improvements in the quality of newborn care across hospitals.

Methods

Continuously collected routine patients' data from structured paper record forms for all admissions to newborn units (NBUs) from 16 purposively selected Kenyan public hospitals that are part of a clinical information network were analysed together with data from all paediatric admissions ages 0-13 years from 14 of these hospitals. Data are used to show the proportion of all admissions and deaths in the

SUBMITTER: Irimu G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8169483 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature