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Adherence to Data Protection Guidelines among Health Researchers at Kenya Medical Research Institute
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Researchers are expected to keep participants’ data in a highly confidential and private manner. A study conducted in Kenya in 2014 revealed that the research stakeholders face different challenges relating to the sharing ... -
Administration of Informed Consent for Medical Imaging Services among Patients in Government Hospitals in Nairobi City County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Informed consent is a requirement by law to allow patients to make decisions with respect to their health and well-being. It is an ethical and legal requirement that patients seeking medical imaging services should give ... -
Assessing the Level of Readiness for Computerized Health Management Information System Among Nurses in Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(2014-08-18)Healthcare Organizations are now in the process of implementing computerized health management health information system (CHMIS) with a hope that they will improve on safety, efficiency and effectiveness of patient healthcare ... -
Assessment of Anti-Female Genital Mutilation Program in Garissa County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Female genital mutilation (FGM), is a social traditional practice performed by cutting parts of the external female genitalia. Globally, over three million women take part in the practice each year. The practise of this ... -
Assessment of HIV-positive postnatal clients’ satisfaction with prevention of mother-to-child transmission services at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2016-07)In the era of HIV and AIDS global pandemic, clients‟ satisfaction is one of the outcome measures for the free PMTCT services and HIV/AIDS care.Despite increasing availability and accessibility to free PMTCT services in ... -
Barriers to early diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer among patients receiving treatment at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi Kenya
(2014)Although cancer still remains a major health problem, early diagnosis and improved therapeutic interventions of cervical cancer in developed countries are quite different from what is observed in the developing countries; ... -
Clinician Workload Determinants at Paediatric Wards of Selected Private and Public Hospitals in Nairobi City County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2020)Human Resources for Health is a key pillar of healthcare provision necessitating prudent staffing norms to meet workload demands of health facilities. Uniform staffing norms across health systems based solely on policy ... -
Clinicians User Satisfaction with Paper-Based Patient Information System in Kenyatta National Hospital and Mbagathi County Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2016)User satisfaction with paper-based information system is a subjective evaluation of the various individual, organizational, and societal consequences of information systems use. Despite the widespread use, the need to ... -
Compliance with the Medical Records Documentation Standard Operating Procedure among Health Workers in Bungoma Hospital County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2021)Improving medical records documentation among the health workers remains a major challenge to achieving compliance to medical records documentation SOP in many developing countries. Compliance to medical records documentation ... -
Compliance with the Provisions of Section 126 of The Public Health Act (Cap 242) By Public Food Places in Bungoma County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015)The public food industry in Bungoma has been experiencing numerous challenges in their quest to comply with the Public Health Act (CAP 242), especially section 126. Consequently, the study sought to establish the extent ... -
Correlates of HIV Viral Load Suppression Among HIV Positive Adults on Care in Nakuru County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2020)Across the entire globe, 75% of people are aware of their HIV Status, at the same time 79% of the people living with HIV are now accessing anti-retroviral therapy while 81% of those people are at the same time accessing ... -
Cost -Effectiveness of Spinal and General Anaesthesia in the Surgical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in Hospitals in Nakuru Municipality, Kenya. /1
(Kenyatta University, 2008-05)Anaesthesia has been cited as one of the medical practices that escalate the cost of expenditure on healthcare. In view of this, spinal anaesthesia has been proposed as a method that can lower surgical costs. However, ... -
Cost -Effectiveness of Spinal and General Anaesthesia in the Surgical Treatment of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia in Hospitals in Nakuru Municipality, Kenya. /1
(Kenyatta University, 2008-05)Anaesthesia has been cited as one of the medical practices that escalate the cost of expenditure on healthcare. In view of this, spinal anaesthesia has been proposed as a method that can lower surgical costs. However, ... -
Cost and Quality of Healthcare Services Provided to Urban Refugees Through in-House and Outsourced Health Facilities in Nairobi, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2015)More than half of the world’s refugees reside in non-camp settings, In Nairobi, approximately 55,000 refugees had been registered with United Nations High Commission for Refugees by end of 2012 (UNHCR, 2013).In recent years ... -
Determinants of access to healthcare among the elderly.the case of Kibera informal settlement, Nairobi County, Kenya
(2014-08-28)Access to Health care by the elderly can be defined as the ability of the aged to get the required medical care from the health service providers when they need it. It’s a comprehensive measurement of access to health care ... -
Determinants of Elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of Hiv among Patients at the Nakuru County Referral Hospital, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2022)Globally, 37.6 million people living with HIV around the world, 67% live in sub-Saharan Africa. Out of the 200,000 new diagnoses of HIV in Africa in 2021, young women and adolescent girls aged 15-24 made up 27% of those ... -
Determinants of Self Directed Referral amongst Patients Seeking Health Services at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
(2014-02-24)Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) is found at the apex of the referral system of health care. Ideally, patients seen at KNH are supposed to have sought care from lower levels of health care in the referral system first ... -
Determinants of Under-five Mortality in Kisumu North District, Kisumu County, Kenya
(2013-10-17)Addressing child mortality and under-five mortality (USM) has continuously been a global challenge. The world summit for children in 1990 called for a worldwide reduction in child mortality to reduce USM to below 70 ... -
Determinants of Utilization of Electronic Medical Records Systems in Clinical Management in Public Healthcare Facilities in Mombasa County, Kenya
(Kenyatta University, 2021)The adoption of information and communication technology (ICT) in the medical field in the form of electronic medical records (EMR) systems had been promoted as a way to reduce cost, increase effectiveness and improve the ... -
Determinants of Utilization of Routine Data for Decision MAKING IN Health Facilities in Kitui County, Kenya
(2014-02-26)Effective management of today’s health systems depends on critical use of data and information for the effective policy-making, planning, monitoring of services and making decisions. Following the decentralization of health, ...
