RP-Department of Health Management & Informatics: Recent submissions
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Nurses’ Perception on Healthcare Services Quality in Mission Hospitals in Kiambu County, Kenya
(AJOL, 2019-02)BACKGROUND Despite adoption of quality improvement initiatives in Kenyan Health facilities, quality gains are not yet optimal in both public and private sector. The private sector, which includes mission hospitals, face ... -
Evaluation of Relationship of Sources of Health Information System (HIS) and HIS Feedback in Selected Public Health Facilities in Nairobi City County, Kenya
(Asian Journal of Research in Nursing and Health, 2020)Aim: This study sought to assess the extent to which sources of Health Information System (HIS) is associated with HIS feedback in the public health facilities in Nairobi City County. Methodology: This study adopted the ... -
Vocal local versus pharmacological treatments for pain management in tubal ligation procedures in rural Kenya: a non-inferiority trial
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Vocal local (VL) is a non-pharmacological pain management technique for gynecological procedures. In Africa, it is usually used in combination with pharmacological analgesics. However, analgesics are associated ... -
Whole-genome sequencing in an autism multiplex family
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) represent a group of childhood neurodevelopmental disorders that affect 1 in 88 children in the US. Previous exome sequencing studies on family trios have implicated a role for ... -
Erratum to: AGC1 Deficiency Causes Infantile Epilepsy, Abnormal Myelination, and Reduced N-Acetylaspartate
(2014)BACKGROUND: Whole exome sequencing (WES) offers a powerful diagnostic tool to rapidly and efficiently sequence all coding genes in individuals presenting for consideration of phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous ... -
AGC1 Deficiency Causes Infantile Epilepsy, Abnormal Myelination, and Reduced N-Acetylaspartate.
(2014)BACKGROUND: Whole exome sequencing (WES) offers a powerful diagnostic tool to rapidly and efficiently sequence all coding genes in individuals presenting for consideration of phenotypically and genetically heterogeneous ... -
Identification of rare DNA sequence variants in high-risk autism families and their prevalence in a large case/control population
(BioMed Central, 2014)Background: Genetics clearly plays a major role in the etiology of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), but studies to date are only beginning to characterize the causal genetic variants responsible. Until recently, studies ... -
Whole-genome DNA/RNA sequencing identifies truncating mutations in RBCK1 in a novel Mendelian disease with neuromuscular and cardiac involvement
(BioMed Central, 2013)Background: Whole-exome sequencing has identified the causes of several Mendelian diseases by analyzing multiple unrelated cases, but it is more challenging to resolve the cause of extremely rare and suspected Mendelian ... -
Meta-analysis of Dense Genecentric Association Studies Reveals Common and Uncommon Variants Associated with Height.
(Elsevier, 2011)Height is a classic complex trait with common variants in a growing list of genes known to contribute to the phenotype. Using a genecentric genotyping array targeted toward cardiovascular-related loci, comprising 49,320 ... -
Factors Influencing Diffusion of Electronic Medical Records: A Case Study in Three Healthcare Institutions in Japan
(The Health Information Management Association of Australia Limited, 2006)This study examines the effect of three factors: information technology (IT) skills of healthcare workers, present status of computerisation in their organisations, and workers' attitudes on the diffusion of electronic ... -
A Novel Susceptibility Locus for Type 1 Diabetes on Chr12q13 Identified by a Genome-Wide Association Study
(American Diabetes Association, 2008-04)OBJECTIVE—In stage 1 of our genome-wide association (GWA) study for type 1 diabetes, one locus at 16p13 was detected (P = 1.03 × 10−10) and confirmed in two additional cohorts. Here we describe the results of testing, in ... -
Food Security Problems in Borabu Division, Nyamira District
(Food Security Problems in Borabu Division, Nyamira District, 2005-09-13)This paper highlights the food security problems in Borabu Division, Nyamira District. It focuses on the concept of the relationship between population growth and land use. Secondly, it examines the influence of changing ... -
Association analysis of the FTO gene with obesity in children of Caucasian and African ancestry reveals a common tagging SNP
(Public Library of Science, 2008-03)Recently an association was demonstrated between the single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), rs9939609, within the FTO locus and obesity as a consequence of a genome wide association (GWA) study of type 2 diabetes in adults. ... -
High-resolution mapping and analysis of copy number variations in the human genome: a data resource for clinical and research applications
(Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2009-09-19)We present a database of copy number variations (CNVs) detected in 2026 disease-free individuals, using high-density, SNP-based oligonucleotide microarrays. This large cohort, comprised mainly of Caucasians (65.2%) and ... -
Knowledge and Acceptability of Pap Smears, Self-sampling and HPV Vaccination among Adult Women in Kenya.
(2012)OBJECTIVES: Our study aimed to assess adult women's knowledge of human papillomavirus (HPV) and cervical cancer, and characterize their attitudes towards potential screening and prevention strategies. METHODS: Women ... -
Sophistication of information technology in healthcare: a comparison among a sample of hospitals in Japan
(Electronic Journal of Health Informatics, 2007)This study examines the level of clinical sophistication of information technology (IT) in a sample of hospitals in Japan and benchmarks the extent of clinical sophistication in Japan with the findings from similar surveys ... -
Nurses' views on the use, quality and user satisfaction with electronic medical records: questionnaire development.
(Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2007)AIM: This paper is a report of the development of an instrument to measure nurses' views on the use, quality and user satisfaction with electronic medical records systems. BACKGROUND: Use of electronic medical records ... -
Association between the use of biomass fuels on respiratory health of workers in food catering enterprises in Nairobi Kenya
(2013-05-06)Introduction: Indoor air pollution from biomass fuel use has been found to be responsible for more than 1.6 million annual deaths and 2.7% of the global burden of disease. This makes it the second biggest environmental ...
