Implementing Locally Appropriate Guidelines and Training to Improve Care of Serious Illness in Kenyan Hospitals: a Story of Scaling-up (and Down and Left and Right)

Overview

Journal Arch Dis Child

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 2011 Jan 12

PMID 21220265

Citations 30

Authors

Mike English

Annah Wamae

Rachel Nyamai

Bill Bevins

Grace Irimu

Affiliations

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