COVID-19 prevention and rehabilitation related knowledge and practices among Egyptian post-COVID-19 patients.

Background: Even with the mild form of COVID-19, people need to practice the proper preventive measures to achieve health, safety and control spread of infection. Few studies assessed sound disinfection and rehabilitative knowledge. This study aims to assess the self-reported, knowledge of specific disinfection measures among post-recovery COVID-19 patients and identifying the most requested knowledge items regarding the prevention and post COVID rehabilitation measures.

Promoting the culture of key performance indicators (KPIs) among primary health care staff at health district level: An intervention study.

Recently, identifying performance indicators and developing measurement frameworks have become crucial concerns. Our study first sought to analyze service statistics of Primary Health Care (PHC) facilities for the years 2017 and 2018 to develop PHC key performance indicators (KPI).This was then followed by a thorough discussion of these KPIs with staff and service providers.

Vitamin D supplementation and improvement of pneumonic children at a tertiary pediatric hospital in Egypt: A randomized controlled trial.

Background: Despite the well-recognized effect of vitamin D in metabolism and homeostasis, there is now growing interest in its probable association with pneumonia. This study aims to supply vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) (100,000 IU) to pneumonic children to minimize the duration of illness and improve their outcome.

Methods: A double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial was conducted in a Pediatric Cairo University affiliated hospital.

Perspectives of pharmaceutical stakeholders on determinants of medicines accessibility at the primary care level.

Background: Equitable access to essential medicines of maintained efficacy, safety, quality, and cost-effectiveness must be ensured by a well-functioning health system. This study aims to identify the determinants of patients' access to medicines at the primary health care (PHC) level from the perspectives of various (internal and external) stakeholders of the pharmaceutical system.

Methods: The study employed both quantitative and qualitative components.

World Health Organization Surgical Safety Checklist with Addition of Infection Control Items: Intervention Study in Egypt.

Background: Surgical team is in command of the operating room (OR) and takes decisions regarding various patient care procedures. Educational programs directed to them, should be creative, provocative and tailored to their specific needs and the expected outcomes.

Aim: This study aims to design and conduct an educational program of patient safety and infection control for the OR team based on the WHO surgical safety checklist and to assess their post-intervention knowledge and practices.

The relationship between health care providers' perceived work climate, organizational commitment, and caring efficacy at pediatric intensive care units, Cairo University.

Background: Healthy work environment has a significant impact on patients, health care workers, and organizations.

Objectives: In a trial to set up strategies to control stressors and weaknesses in the work environment, the present study took place in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) to explore the work environment and its impact on the organization commitment and caring efficacy of health care providers.

Methods: This study is a descriptive cross-sectional study, conducted over a period of 9 months starting from October 2018.

Role of receipt of antenatal care in subsequent contraceptive use at primary health care centres serving slum areas of Cairo, Egypt.

Information on family planning and use of antenatal care services is vital for understanding the main influences on fertility and evaluating the success of national family planning programmes. This study aimed to explore contraceptive use and its relation to use of antenatal care services in Egypt. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among women attending three primary health care centres serving different slum areas of Cairo.

Unmet healthcare needs for older people attending the outpatients' clinics of a university hospital in Cairo, Egypt: a qualitative study.

Background: Egypt is experiencing significant changes in age structure mostly among the older population, which is expected to quadruple over the period 2010-2050. There is no easy, quick-fix recipe for elders' health needs assessment. Qualitative methods are required to explain what is already known.

High alert medications administration errors in neonatal intensive care unit: A pediatric tertiary hospital experience.

Labib JR, Youssef MRL, Abd El Fatah SAM. High alert medications administration errors in neonatal intensive care unit: A pediatric tertiary hospital experience. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 277-285.

Diagnostic indicator of acute lung injury for pediatric critically ill patients at a tertiary pediatric hospital.

Early identification of acute lung injury (ALI) in pediatric patients at risk of mortality is important for improving outcome.Assessment of soluble form of receptor for advanced glycation end products (sRAGE) as a valid biomarker for diagnosis of ALI among critically ill, pediatric patients in addition to correlating levels of sRAGE and different outcomes of those patients.A Hospital-based case-control study was conducted in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) at Cairo University Hospital, along a period of 6 months.