Table 1.
Summary of clinical practice guidelines recommended steps in the management of children with severe anemia and the critical items used to determine adherence to guidelines.
Table 2.
Demographic, clinical care characteristics, and outcome of children diagnosed as cases of ‘severe anemia’ according whether or not they were managed as per clinical guidelines.
Fig 1.
The level of adherence to guidelines over the study period and inpatient mortality rates amongst children managed verses children not managed per guidelines.
Table 3.
The inpatient of care for children 0–5 years managed as cases of severe anemia in Lira and Jinja Hospitals pre and post Quality Improvement (QI) intervention.
Fig 2.
Inpatient mortality rates in children managed verses those not managed according to clinical guidelines in the specified subgroups.
* Whiskers crosses null value 1 but is too long to be presented on the graph.
Table 4.
Clinical management factors from binary and multiple logistic regression associated with inpatient deaths in children managed as severe anemia in Lira and Jinja Hospitals.