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Common Medical Errors and Error Reporting Systems in Selected Hospitals of Central Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-08-30)Medical errors are under studied in the developing world, therefore, this study set out to identify common errors committed during provision of health care and error management systems in the hospitals with reference to ... -
Communities’ Willingness to Pay for Healthcare in Public Health Facilities of Nakasongola District, Uganda
(International Journal of Public Health Research, 2015-08-20)Poor countries continue to register decreasing revenue to finance health care amidst rising demand with consequently growing out of pocket expenditure on health exceeding 35% of the total health care expenditure; this ... -
Community Knowledge of and Attitudes Toward Epilepsy in Rural and Urban Mukono District, Uganda: A Cross-Sectional Study
(Elsevier, 2016-01)Introduction: The lack of adequate knowledge poses a barrier in the provision of appropriate treatment and care of patients with epilepsy within the community. The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of ... -
Community Participation: An Abused Concept?
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2004-04)One of the main principles of PHC was community participation. However, the interpretation and practices of community participation are so diverse that it became different things to different people. The lessons from the ... -
Community’s Care and Support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Case Study on the Responses of the Community to Needy Children in Maracha, Terego District
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2007)DRATE JUDITH (2007-M023-10008) Community’s Care and Support to Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Case Study on the Responses of the Community to Needy Children in Maracha, Terego District The 2002 Uganda population ... -
Comparative Study of Proportions of Postoperative Sepsis _ Maternity Versus General Surgical Ward
(Taylor and Francis, 2021-03-07)Post-operative sepsis tends to complicate the recovery course of many patients. Across the globe, the proportion of post-operative sepsis varied from 2.9% to 30% in various studies. To determine mean proportion of ... -
A Comparison of Kampala Trauma Score II with the New Injury Severity Score in Mbarara University Teaching Hospital in Uganda
(The College of Surgeons of East, Central and Southern Africa (COSECSA), 2010-03)Background: Road traffic injury is of growing public health importance because of its significant contribution to the global disease burden. The need to predict outcome of injuries has led to the development of injury ... -
Comparison of tympanic and rectal thermometry: Diagnosis of neonatal hypothermia in Uganda
(Elsevier, 2004-01-01)Although newborn body temperature monitoring is not a routine occurrence in labour wards in Uganda, postnatal hypothermia is a significant problem. This study was undertaken to find a convenient and accurate method of ... -
Compassion to Victims of War: Food Aid to Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Uganda, 2002-2007
(Uganda Martyrs University, 2008)IKANZA BETTY KASIKO (2008-M092-20055) Compassion to Victims of War: Food Aid to Internally Displaced Persons in Northern Uganda, 2002-2007 Using primarily qualitative methods, this research examines the quality, ... -
Competing Demands and Limited Resources in the Context of War, Poverty and Disease: the Case of Lacor Hospital
(Uganda Martyrs University, Department of Health Sciences, 2003)Difficult choices have to be made among competing demands for health care in the context of severely limited resources and persistent humanitarian crisis prevailing in Northern Uganda. In particular, the challenge of a ... -
Complexity and risk in IS projects: a system dynamics approach
(Fountain Publishers, 2007)In spite of ongoing research on IS risks and the increased sophistication of the tools and techniques developed, IS risks continue to be a challenge to IS professionals and managers. Increased complexity leads to increased ... -
Compliance and Service Delivery Case Study of Local Government Procurement Units in Uganda
(International Public Procurement conference, 2007)This study assessed level of compliance to the procurement law, and how it affects road works delivery cost, time, and quality. The World Bank estimates that 10-15 percent (US$ 100 million) of the US $700 Ugandan ... -
Conceptual Framework to Guide Early Diagnosis Programs for Symptomatic Cancer as Part of Global Cancer Control
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2021-01-06)Diagnosing cancer earlier can enable timely treatment and optimize outcomes. Worldwide, national cancer control plans increasingly encompass early diagnosis programs for symptomatic patients, commonly comprising awareness ... -
Conceptual Modeling of Nodding Syndrome: A System Dynamics and Sequence Approaches
(2017)Conceptual modelling of nodding syndrome (NS) has hardly been considered in most scientific literature although symptoms of the disease has been widely studied. A conceptual model is a representation of hypothesis about a ... -
Conceptual modeling of nodding syndrome: A system dynamics and sequence approaches
(Journal of African Interdisciplinary Studies, 2018)Conceptual modelling of nodding syndrome (NS) has hardly been considered in most scientific literature although symptoms of the disease have been widely studied. A conceptual model is a representation of hypothesis about ... -
Conceptual modeling of nodding syndrome: a system dynamics and sequence approaches
(The Centre for Democracy, Research and Development (CEDRED), 2017-06)Conceptual modelling of nodding syndrome (NS) has hardly been considered in most scientific literature although symptoms of the disease has been widely studied. A conceptual model is a representation of hypothesis about a ... -
Conflict threats to human security: the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) case, Gulu District, Northern Uganda
(Science Research Publishing, 2019-12-03)The study recognised that conflicts threaten human security in various ways. When prolonged, for example, they have a direct damage on physical infrastructure such as medical and educational facilities. Using a qualitative ... -
Consensus Recommendations on Sulfonylurea and Sulfonylurea Combinations in the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – International Task Force
(Indian Journal of Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2018)For decades, sulfonylureas(SUs) have been important drugs in the antidiabetic therapeutic armamentarium. They have been used as monotherapy as well as combination therapy. Focus on newer drugs and concerns about the risk ... -
Constitutionalism, Democratisation and Militarism in Uganda
(Nkumba University, 2016)The paper analyses the extent to which constitutionalism and democratization have played out in Uganda and whether militarism has interfered with the sustainability of constitutionalism and democratization, leading to ... -
The construction of gender in Ugandan English textbooks: a focus on gendered discourses
(Taylor and Francis, 2018)Informed by a feminist post-structural framework, this study departs from the overriding emphasis on explicit constructions of women in textbooks. It focuses on culturally implicit knowledge and/or gendered discourses ...