General Ward Nurses Detection and Response to Clinical Deterioration in Three Hospitals at the Kenyan Coast: A Convergent Parallel Mixed Methods Study

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<h4>Background: </h4> In low and middle-income countries like Kenya, critical care facilities are limited, which means acutely ill patients are managed in the general wards. Nurses in these wards are expected to detect and respond to patient deterioration to prevent cardiac arrest or death. This study examined nurses' vital signs documentation practices during clinical deterioration and explored factors influencin...

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• Algorithms
• Arrhythmias, Cardiac
• Death, Sudden, Cardiac
• Defibrillators, Implantable
• Electric Countershock
• Risk Assessment
• Secondary Prevention
• Treatment Outcome

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Literature Corpus work

559e7ec5-5766-53f1-a471-6584748a1cd5

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-2633455/v1