Assessment of Facility Readiness for Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Utilizing a 2-Phase Survey Conducted in Six Hospitals in Uganda and Cameroon: A Quality Improvement Study
These pilot findings indicate that facilities are partially equipped and ready to provide pediatric emergency and critical care. This facility-readiness tool can be utilized in low-resource settings to assist hospital administrators and policymakers to determine priority areas to improve quality of care for the critically ill child.
Authors
- Abner Tagoola
- J. Mark Ansermino (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8427-2035)
- Matthew O. Wiens (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3287-5181)
- Jollee S.T. Fung (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4555-9372)
- Niranjan Kissoon (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8847-9973)
- Nicholas West (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8382-5136)
- Stephen Businge (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7094-1178)
- Stefanie K. Novakowski (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2715-091X)
- Odiraa Nwankwor
- Jessica Trawin
- Tagbo Oguonu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2185-2419)
- Roberto Jabornisky (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0880-9571)
- Bella Hwang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6519-1563)
- Gabrielle Karlovich
- Emmanuella Talla
- Suiyven Dzelamunyuy
Institutions
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Cooper University Hospital (US)
- National University of the Northeast (AR)
- Ministry of Health (UG)
- Holy Innocents Children's Hospital (UG)
- University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital (NG)
- Universidad de Montevideo (UY)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Pediatric Emergency Care
- Published
- 2024-11-05
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1097/pec.0000000000003276
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.22