Effect of Enhanced Feedback to Hospitals in an Emerging Clinical Information Network

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ClinConnect Summary

The international guidelines for the classification and treatment of childhood pneumonia were revised recently and in Kenya the national guidelines changed in February 2016. We designed an enhanced feedback intervention aimed at improving uptake of the revised pneumonia treatment policy within a clinical network of 12 Kenyan county referral hospitals.

Hospitals were randomized to receive either enhanced feedback (n = 6 hospitals) or standard feedback (n = 6 hospitals) delivered over a six-month period following nationwide pneumonia treatment policy change. The primary outcome is the propor...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Children aged 2 to 59 months admitted to participating network hospitals with WHO pneumonia diagnosis eligible for treatment with oral amoxicillin
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Children aged 2 to 59 months with WHO pneumonia diagnosis and co-morbid illnesses requiring intravenous antibiotic treatment including severe acute malnutrition, bacteraemia, meningitis, or
• • children presenting with pneumonia and tuberculosis or cough lasting more than 2 weeks, or severe malaria