Effectiveness of an electronic clinical decision support system in improving the management of childhood illness in primary care in rural Nigeria: an observational study by Marek Kwiatkowski, Rodolfo Rossi, Torsten Schmitz, Fenella Beynon, Capucine Musard, Marco Landi, Daniel Ishaya, Jeremiah Zira, Muazu Muazu, Camille Renner, Edwin Emmanuel, Solomon Gideon Bulus

“…Children attending for routine care or nutrition visits (eg, immunisation, growth monitoring), physical trauma or mental health problems were excluded.Interventions The ALMANACH intervention package (CDSS implementation with training, mentorship and data feedback) was rolled out across Adamawa’s PHC facilities by the Adamawa State Primary Health Care Development Agency, in partnership with the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. …”
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Sorghum yield prediction based on remote sensing and machine learning in conflict affected South Sudan by John Karongo, Joseph Ivivi Mwaniki, John Ndiritu, Victor Mokaya

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Evaluation of change in emergency care knowledge and skills among front-line healthcare providers in Ukraine with the Basic Emergency Care course: a pretest/post-test study by Sean M Kivlehan, Amy Allen, Olha Viun, Dmitry A Makarov, Daniel Schnorr, Sonny Patel, Sergii A Ryzhenko, Phuong Pham, Timothy B Erickson

“…Objective Evaluate the change in participant emergency care knowledge and skill confidence after implementation of the WHO-International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Basic Emergency Care (BEC) course.Design Pretest/post-test quasi-experimental study.Setting Mechnikov Hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine.Participants Seventy-nine participants engaged in the course, of whom 50 (63.3%) completed all assessment tools. …”
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