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Unsatisfactory COVID-19-Related Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices among Undergraduate University Students in Uganda: An Online Cross-Sectional Survey
(Open Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2021)
Background: This study examined the COVID-19-related knowledge, attitude
and practices among undergraduate students in Uganda. Methods: An
online cross-sectional survey was conducted from 12th-19th June 2020 among
undergraduate ...
Pre‑hospital exposures to antibiotics among children presenting with fever in northern Uganda: a facility‑based cross‑sectional study
(BMC Pediatrics, 2022)
Abstract
Background: The rise in the indiscriminate use of antibiotics has become a major global public health problem and
presents the biggest global health challenge in the twenty-first century. In developing countries, ...
HIV-free survival among breastfed infants born to HIV-positive women in northern Uganda: a facility-based retrospective study
(Pan African Medical Journal, 2020)
Introduction: the HIV-free survival rate is the gold-standard measure of the effectiveness of interventions towards prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in any setting. However, data on HIV-free survival among ...
Lactose intolerance among severely malnourished children with diarrhoea admitted to the nutrition unit, Mulago hospital, Uganda
(BMC Pediatrics, 2010)
Background: Lactose intolerance is a common complication of diarrhoea in infants with malnutrition and a cause of
treatment failure. A combination of nutritional injury and infectious insults in severe protein energy ...
Treatment outcome among children underfive years hospitalized with severe acute malnutrition in St. Mary’s hospital Lacor, Northern Uganda
(BMC Nutrition, 2016)
Background: Severe malnutrition contributes to more than 60 % of deaths in children in developing countries. The
minimum international standard set for management of severe acute malnutrition is a cure rate of at least ...
WHO guidelines on fluid resuscitation in children: missing the FEAST data
(Bmj, 2014)
The World Health Organization recommendations on
management of common childhood illnesses affect the lives of
millions of children admitted to hospital worldwide. Its latest
guidelines,1 released in May 2013, continue ...
WHO guidelines on fluid resuscitation in children : Authors’ reply to Southall
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2014)
Southall made several points about our recent article.1 2
He suggests that “lethal hyperchloraemia” secondary to use of
normal saline in FEAST (for boluses or maintenance) resulted
in excess mortality. However, he did ...
Lactate clearance as a prognostic marker of mortality in severely ill febrile children in East Africa
(BMC Medicine, 2018)
Background: Hyperlactataemia (HL) is a biomarker of disease severity that predicts mortality in patients with sepsis
and malaria. Lactate clearance (LC) during resuscitation has been shown to be a prognostic factor of ...
Mortality after Fluid Bolus in African Children with Severe Infection
(New England Journal of Medicine, 2011)
Background
The role of fluid resuscitation in the treatment of children with shock and lifethreatening
infections who live in resource-limited settings is not established.
Methods
We randomly assigned children with ...
Predicting mortality in sick African children: the FEAST Paediatric Emergency Triage (PET) Score
(BMC Medicine, 2015)
Background: Mortality in paediatric emergency care units in Africa often occurs within the first 24 h of admission
and remains high. Alongside effective triage systems, a practical clinical bedside risk score to identify ...