{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["53(4)"],"submitter":["Kruk ME"],"funding":["Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation","Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objective</h4>Describe content of clinical care for sick children in low-resource settings.<h4>Data sources</h4>Nationally representative health facility surveys in Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda from 2007 to 2015.<h4>Study design</h4>Clinical visits by sick children under 5 years were observed and caregivers interviewed. We describe duration and content of the care in the visit and estimate associations between increased content and caregiver knowledge and satisfaction.<h4>Principal findings</h4>The median duration of 15,444 observations was 8 minutes; providers performed 8.4 of a maximum 24 clinical actions per visit. Content of care was minimally greater for severely ill children. Each additional clinical action was associated with 2 perc"],"journal":["Health services research"],"pagination":["2084-2098"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC6052007"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Content of Care in 15,000 Sick Child Consultations in Nine Lower-Income Countries."],"pmcid":["PMC6052007"],"pubmed_authors":["Gage AD","Kruk ME","Leslie HH","Mbaruku GM"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Content of Care in 15,000 Sick Child Consultations in Nine Lower-Income Countries.","description":"<h4>Objective</h4>Describe content of clinical care for sick children in low-resource settings.<h4>Data sources</h4>Nationally representative health facility surveys in Haiti, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Nepal, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, and Uganda from 2007 to 2015.<h4>Study design</h4>Clinical visits by sick children under 5 years were observed and caregivers interviewed. We describe duration and content of the care in the visit and estimate associations between increased content and caregiver knowledge and satisfaction.<h4>Principal findings</h4>The median duration of 15,444 observations was 8 minutes; providers performed 8.4 of a maximum 24 clinical actions per visit. Content of care was minimally greater for severely ill children. Each additional clinical action was associated with 2 perc","dates":{"release":"2018-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2018 Aug","modification":"2025-04-18T18:13:11.743Z","creation":"2019-08-07T07:01:10Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC6052007","cross_references":{"pubmed":["29516468"],"doi":["10.1111/1475-6773.12842"]}}