Felicity Fitzgerald

Biographic Data

ID5939312
NAMEFelicity Fitzgerald
GIVEN NAMESFelicity
FAMILY NAMEFitzgerald
SIGNATUREFITZGERALD F
AFFILIATIONSImperial College London
ORCID0000-0001-9594-3228
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS2
WORKS AS AUTHOR9
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Impact and cost-effectiveness of Neotree, a digital data capture and decision support tool designed to improve neonatal survival in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessTom Palmer, Simbarashe Chimhuya et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2026

    INTRODUCTION: Many neonatal deaths are avoidable using existing low-cost evidence-based interventions. This study evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Neotree, a digital quality improvement tool combining data capture with education and clinical decision support, implemented in a Zimbabwean hospital. METHODS: Neotree was implemented in Chinhoyi Provincial Hospital (CPH) in December 2020. Using data collected for all neonates admi…

  • Clinical prediction models to diagnose neonatal sepsis in low-income and middle-income countries

    Open AccessSamuel R Neal, Sarah Sturrock et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    INTRODUCTION: Neonatal sepsis causes significant morbidity and mortality worldwide but is difficult to diagnose clinically. Clinical prediction models (CPMs) could improve diagnostic accuracy, facilitating earlier treatment for cases and avoiding antibiotic overuse. Neonates in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are disproportionately affected by sepsis, yet no review has comprehensively synthesised evidence for CPMs validated in this…

  • Rapid bacterial identification and resistance detection using a low complexity molecular diagnostic platform in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessTinashe Mwaturura, Ioana D Olaru et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Sepsis is a major cause of mortality in low-resource settings. Effective microbiological culture services are a bottleneck in diagnosis and surveillance. AIM: We aimed to evaluate the performance of the BIOFIRE FILMARRAY Blood Culture Identification 2 (BCID2, bioMérieux) assay in a low-resource setting laboratory in comparison to standard practice. METHODS: This five month prospective validation study included all positive blood cultu…

  • A call to bridge the diagnostic gap

    Open AccessBirgitta Gleeson, Cecilia Ferreyra et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2024

    BOX Low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) bear the greatest burden of neonatal mortality, with sepsis being a major contributor

  • “Getting pregnant during Covid-19 was a big risk because getting help from the clinic was not easy”

    Open AccessZ Mupambireyi, Frances M Cowan et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2024

    The COVID-19 pandemic and associated measures may have disrupted delivery of maternal and neonatal health services and reversed the progress made towards dual elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Zimbabwe. This qualitative study explores the impact of the pandemic on the provision and uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services from the perspectives of women and maternal healthcare providers…

  • Impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the provision and uptake of services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe

    Open AccessElizabeth Chappell, Anesu Chimwaza et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2023

    Zimbabwe is targeting elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by December 2025, however the COVID-19 pandemic challenged health service delivery globally. Monthly aggregated data were extracted from DHIS-2 for all facilities delivering antenatal care (ANC). ZIMSTAT and Spectrum demographic estimates were used for population-level denominators. Programme indicators are among those in HIV care and population indicators reflect the total …

  • Risk factors of mortality in neonates with neonatal encephalopathy in a tertiary newborn care unit in Zimbabwe over a 12-month period

    Open AccessHannah Gannon, Gwendoline Chimhini et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2022

    Neonatal encephalopathy (NE) accounts for ~23% of the 2.4 million annual global neonatal deaths. Approximately 99% of global neonatal deaths occur in low-resource settings, however, accurate data from these low-resource settings are scarce. We reviewed risk factors of neonatal mortality in neonates admitted with neonatal encephalopathy from a tertiary neonatal unit in Zimbabwe. A retrospective review of risk factors of short-term neonatal encepha…

  • Drama and Empathy in Medical Education

    Open AccessKabir Matharu, Jessica Howell et al.ARTICLELiterature Compass2011Cited by: 1References: 4

    Increasingly, undergraduate and graduate programs in medical humanities are exploring the ability of the arts to elucidate the human condition as it relates to patient care. At the University of California, Davis, students and faculty from both the Department of Medicine and English Literature have convened for informal readings of scenes from dramatic works. This paper discusses the use of excerpts from Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into N…

  • Fearlessly exploring the other

    Kabir Matharu, Kabir Singh Matharu et al.ARTICLEMedical Humanities2010Cited by: 1

    Drama has been used as a medium for instruction within medical education, with particular focus on illness-centred performance.1 At the University of California, Davis, faculty from the Department of English and Division of Internal Medicine informally read scenes from various plays alongside medical students in hour-long sessions. Attendant discussion from students and faculty focus on understanding and approaching these characters as ‘patients’…