Exploring challenges and recommendations for verbal autopsy implementation in low-/middle-income countries: a cross-sectional study of Iringa Region-Tanzania.

Background: Verbal autopsy (VA) plays a vital role in providing cause-of-death information in places where such information is not available. Many low-/middle-income countries (LMICs) including Tanzania are still struggling to yield quality and adequate cause-of-death data for Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS).

Objective: To highlight challenges and recommendations for VA implementation to support LMICs yield quality and adequate mortality statistics for informed decisions on healthcare interventions.

Verbal autopsy models in determining causes of death.

Objectives: To systematically review current practices, strengths and limitations of existing VA approaches to increase understanding of health system stakeholders and researchers.

Methods: The review was conducted and reported based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines, in which articles were systematically obtained from the PubMed and SCOPUS online databases. The search was limited to English language journal articles published between 2010 and 2020.

The reliability and usability of district health information software: case studies from Tanzania.

The District Health Information System (DHIS) software from the Health Information System Programme (HISP) based in South Africa is widely implemented in many developing countries as a health data analysis tool. Through the HISP Tanzania project, the DHIS was piloted in five districts in Tanzania. The objective of this study was to qualify and quantify the extent to which district health workers consider the adaptation of the DHIS software to the needs of the routine health management information system.

A procedure for placing pediatric femoral venous catheter tips near the right atrium.

Objective: To find a body measurement that would serve as an index for determining the length of femoral venous catheter to be inserted to achieve a position near the right atrium.

Methods: A candidate index measurement was chosen, and radiographic measurements of routine femoral venous catheter placements were compared with the placement that may have resulted from use of the index in a group of patients. In a subsequent group, the candidate index was used to choose catheter insertion length, the accuracy of which was again evaluated from routine placement radiographs.

Emergency intubation of the pediatric medical patient: use of anesthetic agents in the emergency department.

Study Objectives: To delineate the diagnoses of children who required emergency intubation, to ascertain which medications were used, and to describe the complications of intubation and their association with the choice of medications. DESIGN, SETTING, AND TYPE OF PARTICIPANTS: Three-year retrospective study of 60 intubations of critically ill pediatric patients by pediatric emergency physicians in the emergency department setting.

Measurements And Main Results: Clinical complications were noted for intubations with neuromuscular paralysis and intubations initially attempted without a paralyzing agent.