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An intervention to improve paediatric and newborn care in Kenyan district hospitals: Understanding the context

Mike English1,2*, Stephen Ntoburi1, John Wagai1, Patrick Mbindyo1, Newton Opiyo1, Philip Ayieko1, Charles Opondo1, Santau Migiro3, Annah Wamae3 and Grace Irimu1,4

Author Affiliations

1 KEMRI Centre for Geographic Medicine Research – Coast, & Wellcome Trust Research Programme, P.O. Box 43640, Nairobi, Kenya

2 Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

3 Division of Child Health, Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, Nairobi, Kenya

4 Department of Paediatrics, College of Health Sciences, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

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Implementation Science 2009, 4:42 doi:10.1186/1748-5908-4-42

Published: 23 July 2009

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Table S2. Basic workload statistics, structural, process and outcome indicators relevant to paediatric and newborn care in all hospitals at baseline (hospitals H1 – H4 later received the full intervention, H5 – H8 acted as contemporaneous controls). The data provided provides a description of the hospitals at baseline and the findings of the baseline quality of care surveys.

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Table S3. National level contextual factors potentially influencing effectiveness of the hospital based intervention programme to improve quality of paediatric and newborn care. The data provided indicate how the national health policy context changed during the progress of the study.

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Table S4. Hospital level contextual factors potentially influencing effectiveness of the hospital based intervention programme to improve quality of paediatric and newborn care. The data provided indicate how the local health policy and organizational context changed during the progress of the study.

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