Quality improvement training for burn care in low-and middle-income countries: A pilot course for nurses.

Background: There is an urgent need to empower practitioners to undertake quality improvement (QI) projects in burn services in low-middle income countries (LMICs). We piloted a course aimed to equip nurses working in these environments with the knowledge and skills to undertake such projects.

Methods: Eight nurses from five burns services across Malawi and Ethiopia took part in this pilot course, which was evaluated using a range of methods, including interviews and focus group discussions.

Parents' perceptions of unintentional paediatric burn injuries - A qualitative study.

Background: Burn injuries disproportionally affect the world's poorest populations. However, there has been a lack of research that has investigated the social, cultural or contextual factors associated with this injury mechanism in these areas. As a result, there is a scarcity of information from which to develop culturally appropriate and targeted burn prevention initiatives.

Tuberculosis Treatment Completion Rates in Southern New Mexico Colonias.

TB medication completion treatment rates for active TB patients living in impoverished US-Mexico border communities called colonias in southern New Mexico counties are unknown. It might be suspected that residents of colonias have lower completion rates than those living in incorporated and medically more accessible areas. A retrospective record review of closed TB case records from 1993 to 2010 of southern New Mexico border counties, was conducted using a modified version of the New Mexico Department of Health Tuberculosis Targeted Health Assessment/History form (Appendix 1).