| Literature DB >> 28850617 |
Bhakti Hansoti1,2, Alexander Jenson1, Antony G Kironji1, Joanne Katz2, Scott Levin1, Richard Rothman1, Gabor D Kelen1, Lee A Wallis3.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: In low resource settings, an inadequate number of trained healthcare workers and high volumes of children presenting to Primary Healthcare Centers (PHC) result in prolonged waiting times and significant delays in identifying and evaluating critically ill children. The Sick Children Require Emergency Evaluation Now (SCREEN) program, a simple six-question screening algorithm administered by lay healthcare workers, was developed in 2014 to rapidly identify critically ill children and to expedite their care at the point of entry into a clinic. We sought to determine the impact of SCREEN on waiting times for critically ill children post real world implementation in Cape Town, South Africa. METHODS ANDEntities:
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Year: 2017 PMID: 28850617 PMCID: PMC5574605 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0183520
Source DB: PubMed Journal: PLoS One ISSN: 1932-6203 Impact factor: 3.240
Fig 1Infographic demonstrating the Sick Children Require Emergency Evaluation Now (SCREEN) program.
Fig 2Overview of SCREEN implementation-effectiveness evaluation methodology.
Summary of patients enrolled by study phase and outcome measures.
| Phase I | Phase II | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Data Collection Time Period | March 1st to May 1st (2014), N (%) | January 1st to Mar. 31st, September 1st to November 31st (2016), N (%) | |||
| Number of Clinics/QM groups | 4 | - | 26 | - | |
| Total number of children who attended the clinic | 1732 | - | 3383 | - | |
| Total number children observed | 1600 | 92.4% | 3383 | 100.0% | |
| Total number of critically ill children | 33 | 2.1% | 170 | 5.0% | |
| Accuracy: Total no of charts reviewed | n/a | - | 827 | 24.4% | |
| Adherence: Total no of parents interviewed | n/a | - | 977 | 28.9% | |
| Adherence: Total no of parents included in analysis | n/a | - | 493 | 50.5% | |
§ In Phase I critically ill is defined as IMCI RED, in Phase II critically ill is defined as any child who is determined as SCREEN positive based on the QM assessment (see text).
Only charts that had both SCREEN documentation and IMCI documentation could be included in the chart review.
* Only parents who presented with a “sick” child who is not critically should have been asked all six questions and thus are included in the analysis.
Fig 3Pre-and-post impact of SCREEN implementation on wait times to nurse evaluation for critically ill children, Kaplan Meier survival analysis.
Characteristics of children included in the retrospective chart review.
| Jan-March 2016 | Sept-Nov 2016 | Total/Overall | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clinics/QM groups | 13 | 13 | 26 |
| Total (N) | 486 | 341 | 827 |
| Months of Study | Jan-March (Winter) | Sept-Nov (Summer) | 6 months |
| Age (mean months) | 30.2 | 23.1 | 27.6 |
| Male Sex—N (%) | 250 (51.6% | 154 (45.2%) | 404 (48.9%) |
| Temp (mean degrees Celsius) | 36.5° | 36.5° | 36.5° |
| Fever > 38 degrees Celsius—N (%) | 27 (5.6%) | 41 (12.0%) | 68 (8.2%) |
| Below Weight < 25th percentile- N (%) | 28 (5.8%) | 11 (3.1%) | 39 (4.7%) |
| IMCI Green | 290 (59.7%) | 255 (74.8%) | 545 (65.9%) |
| IMCI Yellow | 169 (34.8%) | 78 (22.8%) | 247 (29.9%) |
| 27 (5.6%) | 8 (2.3%) | 35 (4.2%) | |
| 76 (15.6%) | 51 (15.0%) | 127 (15.4%) | |
| 0 | 2 | 2 (0.0%) |
Sensitivity and specificity analysis.
| IMCI | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red | Yellow/Green | N | ||
| Positive | 33 | 94 | 127 | |
| Negative | 2 | 698 | 700 | |
| N | 35 | 792 | 827 | |
*IMCI = Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses, IMCI-Red = Critically Ill, IMCI-Yellow/Green = Not Critically Ill.