Objectives A substantial number of low and middle income countries (LMICs) have
implemented health sector reforms in the last 40 years, and the majority of them have …

BACKGROUND Planning for mass critical care (MCC) in resource-poor or constrained
settings has been largely ignored, despite their large populations that are prone to suffer …

Background Organizational factors are considered to be an important influence on health
workers' uptake of interventions that improve their practices. These are additionally …

Background In develo** countries referral of severely ill children from primary care to
district hospitals is common, but hospital care is often of poor quality. However, strategies to …

Background We wanted to try to account for worker motivation as a key factor that might
affect the success of an intervention to improve implementation of health worker practices in …

Background The gap between what is known and what is practiced results in health service
users not benefitting from advances in healthcare, and in unnecessary costs. A supportive …

Background Interventions to reduce child deaths in Africa have often underachieved,
causing the Millennium Development Goal targets to be missed. We assessed whether a …

Background Although considerable efforts are directed at develo** international
guidelines to improve clinical management in low-income settings they appear to influence …

Background A large proportion of the annual 3.3 million neonatal deaths could be averted if
there was a high uptake of basic evidence-based practices. In order to overcome this 'know …

Background We have reported the results of a cluster randomized trial of rural Kenyan
hospitals evaluating the effects of an intervention to introduce care based on best-practice …