Renal nurses' experiences of patients with severe mental health conditions receiving acute haemodialysis: A qualitative study.

Background: Patients receiving acute haemodialysis treatment and living with severe mental illness may display behaviours that are perceived as challenging and stressful for renal nurses to manage in the acute haemodialysis unit. Renal nurses are historically trained on the technical aspects of acute haemodialysis and can provide a level of psychological support to patients. However, they have not been trained to manage patients with severe mental illness.

Screening for urinary tract infection in children with cancer.

Neutropaenia and immunosuppression place children on treatment for malignancies at a high risk for infections. We undertook to determine the prevalence of urinary tract infection (UTI) in children on treatment for cancer at the Kenyatta National Teaching and Referral hospital. With the understanding that many laboratories in the rural areas of the country lack appropriate facilities for confirmation of UTI, it was also important to evaluate simple and inexpensive screening methods against a "gold standard" in this cross sectional study.

The effect of protein energy malnutrition on morbidity and mortality due to measles at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi (Kenya).

In a study of 7,631 cases referred to the infectious diseases hospital, Nairobi with a diagnosis of measles, 7,447 cases had the diagnosis confirmed. The overall mortality was 17.5 per 1000 cases with 43.