Se Asian J Trop Med
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Se Asian J Trop Med · Jan 2006
Assessing prescribing and patient care indicators for children under five years old with malaria and other disease conditions in public primary health care facilities.
A prospective descriptive observational study using WHO indicator forms and questionnaire was carried out in Kibaha district public primary health care facilities. We assessed knowledge about drugs in mothers/guardians of sick children under age five years immediately after consulting clinicians and after receiving drugs from the dispenser. The questionnaires had closed- and open-ended questions. ⋯ Furthermore, inadequate physical examination and short consultation time needs to be improved. There is a need to advise the Ministry of Health to develop health education programs on a regular basis for all health care providers in the country and mothers/guardians of children in general public/rural communities on how to use/administer antimalarials and other drugs at home. All these can be achieved through well planned health education training programs.
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the minimum incubation time required to detect positive blood cultures from newborn infants with sepsis. Data were collected retrospectively on seventy-five positive blood cultures from newborn infants in the neonatal intensive care unit of Songklanagarind Hospital. The BacT/Alert Microbial Detection System had been used to culture the samples. ⋯ If definite and possible bacterial pathogens were considered, the time to positivity was 71% at 24 hours, 95% at 36 hours and 97% at 48 hours, respectively. The sensitivity, specificity and negative predictive values were 70.3%, 100%, and 93.3%, respectively. Of cultures growing fungi, 80% were positive by 36 hours and all by 48 hours.