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Continuity of care and outcomes among diabetic patients attending Tororo District Hospital in Eastern Uganda
(Makerere University, Kampala - Uganda, 2013-06)
Background: Diabetes causes significant morbidity to the individual as a result of its multiple complications. Much of the morbidity and mortality arising from complications of diabetes can be prevented when you have ...
Prevalence and immediate neonatal outcomes of nuchal cord at birth in Mulago Hospital: A cross sectional study.
(Makerere University, 2014-06)
Background: Nuchal cord is the leading cord accident and can lead to intrauterine fetal death, failed fetal decent and neonatal death when the cord is wrapped around the neck tightly. Although the nuchal cord is implicated ...
Do religion and religiosity have anything to do with alcohol consumption patterns? Evidence from two fish landing sites on Lake Victoria, Uganda
(Informa Healthcare, 2013)
Fish landing sites have high levels of harmful use of alcohol. This paper examines the role of religion and religiosity on alcohol consumption at two fish landing sites on Lake Victoria in Uganda. Questionnaires were ...
Non-linear mixed effects modeling of liver function biomarkers in TB-HIV patients co-treated with Rifampicin and Efavirenz based regimens
(2013-11)
Introduction
Survival has improved as a result of improved HIV therapy but liver disease remains a critical problem in HIV patients. HIV disease, ART and Tuberculosis treatments have all been documented to cause liver ...
Value and importance of informed consent to researchers at Makerere University.
(Annals of Tropical Medicine and Public Health., 2012)
Background: Respect for persons requires that research participants be given the opportunity to make choices about what should be done to them. Many times, the process of informed consent is abused to the benefit of ...
Waiting time for triaged children with emergency signs in Emergency Paediatric Unit of Mulago National Referral Hospital.
(Makerere University, 2014)
Background: Triage is an essential tool for early recognition of very sick participants, rapid initiation of treatment and has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality in high-income countries. In Low-income countries ...
Relationship between phenotypic features of Cryptococcus Neoformans and CSF opening pressure in HIV–infected patients with cryptococcal meningitis in Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda.
(Makerere University, 2012-05)
Background: Cryptococcal meningoencephalitis(CM) is a highly prevalent HIV associated opportunistic infection in Africa, with mortality attributable to raised intracranial pressure (ICP) as high as 50%, rising to 100% among ...
Association between RBC folate levels with breast cancer in patients seen at Mulago National Referral Hospital: A case-control study.
(Makerere University, 2012)
Background: Folate has been shown to play a complex but unclear role in carcinogenesis, with, some studies showing that low folate intake protects against early while high folate intake promoting advanced carcinogenesis. ...
Oral health promotion in schools: rationale and evaluation.
(Health Education, 2013)
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the rationale and potential for the WHO health
promoting schools (HPS) to improve children’s oral health, and describe validated quantitative
methodologies and qualitative ...
Molecular characterization of resistance genes to erythromycin and clindamycin in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus Aureus from Uganda
(Makerere University, 2014-07)
Background: Erythromycin (a macrolide) and clindamycin (a lincosamide) are antibiotics that are structurally distinct but related microbiologically because of their similar mode of action of inhibiting protein synthesis ...