Browsing Faculty of Community and Health Sciences by Subject "Malnourished children"
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Improving the hospital management of malnourished children by participatory research
(Oxford University Press, 2004)OBJECTIVE. To improve the clinical management of severely malnourished children in rural hospitals in South Africa. STUDY DESIGN. A pre- and post-intervention descriptive study in three stages: assessment of the clinical ... -
Training nurses to save lives of malnourished children
(Democratic Nursing Organisation of South Africa, 2006)A qualitative study with a pre- and post-intervention component was undertaken among 66 professional nurses at 11 hospitals in the Eastern Cape to assess their perceptions and attitudes towards severely malnourished children ... -
Why do some hospitals achieve better care of severely malnourished children than others? Five-year follow-up of rural hospitals in Eastern Cape, South Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2008)Staff at 11 rural hospitals in an under-resourced region of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, participated in an intervention to improve the quality of care of severely malnourished children through training and support ...