Evaluating the effects of increasing nursing numbers on quality of newborn care in understaffed neonatal units in Kenya: a prospective intervention study
In very high workload settings in LMICs where nurses can only deliver a fraction of nursing care, staffing increases improve care delivery more obviously for high-priority tasks. These findings provide much needed evidence that increasing neonatal nurse staffing in under-resourced newborn units improves care quality.
Authors
- Onesmus Onyango
- David Gathara (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0958-0713)
- Fred Were (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7879-1883)
- Mike English (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7427-0826)
- Vincent Kagonya (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7098-5958)
- Jalemba Aluvaala (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0851-3711)
- Attakrit Leckcivilize
- Abdulazeez Imam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5070-3060)
- Michuki Maina (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6874-8929)
- Sebastian Fuller (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9284-6630)
- Kenneth Karumba
Institutions
- University of Nairobi (KE)
- Kenya Medical Research Institute (KE)
- University of Oxford (GB)
- London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ Quality & Safety
- Published
- 2025-10-15
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2025-019024
- Primary Topic
- Global Maternal and Child Health
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00