Tackling post-discharge mortality in children living in LMICs to reduce child deaths

Affiliations

¹ Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: sakech@kemri-wellcome.org.
² Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kisumu, Kenya.
³ Center for International Child Health, BC Children's Hospital, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Walimu, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit, Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

Samuel Akech et al. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023 Mar.

. 2023 Mar;7(3):149-151.

doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(22)00375-3. Epub 2023 Jan 19.

¹ Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya. Electronic address: sakech@kemri-wellcome.org.
² Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, Center for Global Health, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Kisumu, Kenya.
³ Center for International Child Health, BC Children's Hospital, Child and Family Research Institute, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology and Therapeutics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Walimu, Kampala, Uganda.
⁴ Cambodia Oxford Medical Research Unit, Angkor Hospital for Children, Siem Reap, Cambodia; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁵ Kenya Medical Research Institute Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Nairobi, Kenya; Centre for Tropical Medicine and Global Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.

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Conflict of interest statement

We declare no competing interests.

Child survival: down to quality of care.
The Lancet Child Adolescent Health. The Lancet Child Adolescent Health. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023 Mar;7(3):145. doi: 10.1016/S2352-4642(23)00028-7. Lancet Child Adolesc Health. 2023. PMID: 36813383 No abstract available.