e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries

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Author:

DeRenzi, Brian; Lesh, Neal; Parikh, Tapan; Sims, Clayton; Mitchell, Marc; Maokola, Werner; Chemba, Mwajuma; Hamisi, Yuna; Schellenberg, David; Borriello, Gaetano

Publication Date:

Jan 2008

Publication Type:

Report/White paper

Publisher/Journal:

Association for Computing Machinery

Abstract:

Every year almost 10 million children die before reaching
the age of five despite the fact that two-thirds of these
deaths could be prevented by effective low-cost
interventions. To combat this, the World Health
Organization (WHO) and UNICEF developed the
Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI)
treatment algorithms.
In Tanzania, IMCI is the national policy for the treatment
of childhood illness. This paper describes e-IMCI, a system
for administering the IMCI protocol using a PDA. Our
preliminary investigation in rural Tanzania suggests that e-
IMCI is almost as fast as the common practice and
potentially improves care by increasing adherence to the
IMCI protocols. Additionally, we found clinicians could
quickly be trained to use e-IMCI and were very enthusiastic
about using it in the future.

Countries:

Tanzania

Global Regions:

Sub-Saharan Africa

Paper URL:

http://dub.washington.edu/pubs...

Upload Paper:

chi1104-bderenzi.pdf

Citation:

DeRenzi, Brian; Lesh, Neal; Parikh, Tapan; Sims, Clayton; Mitchell, Marc; Maokola, Werner; Chemba, Mwajuma; Hamisi, Yuna; Schellenberg, David; Borriello, Gaetano (2008). e-IMCI: Improving Pediatric Health Care in Low-Income Countries. worker step-by-step through the IMCI treatment algorithm. CHI 2008, April 5-10 , 2008, Florence, Italy. Copyright 2008 ACM 978-1-60558-011-1/08/04

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