Erratum to: Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power (EQUIP): protocol for a quasi-experimental study to improve maternal and newborn health in Tanzania and Uganda

Erratum to: Expanded Quality Management Using Information Power (EQUIP): Protocol for a quasi-experimental study to improve maternal and newborn health in Tanzania and Uganda [Implement Sci. 9, (2014) 41, DOI:10.1186/1748-5908-9-41]

Community-based approaches for neonatal survival: meta-analyses of randomized trial data

Objective To analyse the impact of community approaches to improving newborn health and survival in low-resource countries. Methods We updated previous meta-analyses of published cluster randomized trials of community-based interventions …

Effects of the Helping Mothers Survive Bleeding after Birth training on near miss morbidity and mortality in Uganda: A cluster-randomized trial

Objective To assess the effect of Helping Mothers Survive Bleeding after Birth training on postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) near miss and case fatality rates in Uganda. Methods Training was evaluated using …

Predicting Long-Term Flourishing Outcomes among Sensitive and Non-Sensitive Children

A wealth of evidence documents associations between early rearing contexts and symptoms of mental illness, with harsh and unpredictable environments appearing to trigger stress responses that shape developmental outcomes, some …

Explaining patterns of malnutrition among children in Uganda

Child malnutrition is one of the most serious problems threatening people's lives in Uganda. This thesis assesses the factors associated with patterns of child nutritional outcomes in Uganda, as indicated …

Predictive utility of tuberculosis symptom screening for children and adolescents living with HIV in six high HIV/TB burden countries in eastern and southern Africa.

BACKGROUND: The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates tuberculosis (TB) accounted for 40,000 deaths in children living with HIV in 2017. Early detection and treatment of TB reduces mortality in children …

Characterisation of a Composite Exonic Regulatory Element of Splicing (CERES) in CFTR Exon 12: Functional Poperties and Evolutionary Constraints

Genotype screening in human disease frequently results in the identification of exon/intron sequence variations whose direct connection with occurrence of disease is often unclear, especially if they occur within exons …

Pd-L1 Expression and Prediction of Response to Immune Modulators in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer; Reasons for Its Fragility and Strategies to Reduce It

Introduction Anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immunomodulatory (IM) therapy has revolutionised the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The only âbiomarkerâ currently-validated for predicting response of these tumours to IM therapy is the …

Comparison of MGIT and Myco/F lytic liquid-based blood culture systems for recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from pleural fluid

MEDLINE Abstract: The specificities and sensitivities of the Bactec mycobacterial growth indicator tube (MGIT) system for the recovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from pleural fluid are not statistically different than those …