Samuel Akech

Datos Biográficos

ID9024166
NOMBRESamuel Akech
NOMBRESSamuel
APELLIDOAkech
FIRMAAKECH S
AFILIACIONESKenya Medical Research Institute
ORCID0000-0001-5126-1225
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS9
TOTAL DE CITAS0
TOTAL COMO AUTOR9
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2019
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2025
ÍNDICE H0

  • Factors associated with positive blood cultures in children in nine African and Asian countries

    Open AccessCristina Ardura-Garcia, Jill Hopkins et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2025

    BACKGROUND: Blood culture (BC) in children has relatively low diagnostic yield and high contamination rates, limiting cost-effectiveness. We aimed to determine readily available baseline characteristics to identify hospitalised children with a likelihood of higher diagnostic yield in low- and middle-income countries. METHODS: We used data from ACORN2, a prospective clinical surveillance network including 19 hospitals across Africa and Asia. We in…

  • Repeatability of RRate measurements in children during triage in two Ugandan hospitals

    Open AccessAhmad Asdo, Alishah Mawji et al.ARTICLEPLOS Global Public Health2025

    Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children globally. In low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) pneumonia diagnosis relies on accurate assessment of respiratory rate, which can be unreliable when completed by nurses with less-advanced training. To inform more accurate measurements, we investigate the repeatability of the RRate app used by nurses in Ugandan district hospitals. This secondary analysis included 3,679 children aged 0–5 year…

  • Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019

    Open AccessChristopher J L Murray, Kevin S Ikuta et al.ARTICLEThe Lancet2022

    BACKGROUND: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a major threat to human health around the world. Previous publications have estimated the effect of AMR on incidence, deaths, hospital length of stay, and health-care costs for specific pathogen-drug combinations in select locations. To our knowledge, this study presents the most comprehensive estimates of AMR burden to date. METHODS: We estimated deaths and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) a…

  • A bibliometric analysis of Covid-19 research in Africa

    Open AccessFatuma Hassan Guleid, Robinson Oyando et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an unprecedented global research effort to build a body of knowledge that can inform mitigation strategies. We carried out a bibliometric analysis to describe the COVID-19 research output in Africa in terms of setting, study design, research themes and author affiliation. METHODS: We searched for articles published between 1 December 2019 and 3 January 2021 from various databases including PubMed, Afri…

  • Employing learning health system principles to advance research on severe neonatal and paediatric illness in Kenya

    Open AccessMike English, Grace Irimu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    We have worked to develop a Clinical Information Network (CIN) in Kenya as an early form of learning health systems (LHS) focused on paediatric and neonatal care that now spans 22 hospitals. CIN’s aim was to examine important outcomes of hospitalisation at scale, identify and ultimately solve practical problems of service delivery, drive improvements in quality and test interventions. By including multiple routine settings in research, we aimed t…

  • Examining unit costs for Covid-19 case management in Kenya

    Open AccessEdwine Barasa, Angela Kairu et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    INTRODUCTION: We estimated unit costs for COVID-19 case management for patients with asymptomatic, mild-to-moderate, severe and critical COVID-19 disease in Kenya. METHODS: We estimated per-day unit costs of COVID-19 case management for patients. We used a bottom-up approach to estimate full economic costs and adopted a health system perspective and patient episode of care as our time horizon. We obtained data on inputs and their quantities from …

  • Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals

    Open AccessGrace Irimu, Jalemba Aluvaala et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2021

    BACKGROUND: Most of the deaths among neonates in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) can be prevented through universal access to basic high-quality health services including essential facility-based inpatient care. However, poor routine data undermines data-informed efforts to monitor and promote improvements in the quality of newborn care across hospitals. METHODS: Continuously collected routine patients' data from structured paper r…

  • Protecting children in low-income and middle-income countries from Covid-19

    Open AccessSalahuddin Ahmed, Tisungane Mvalo et al.ARTICLEBMJ Global Health2020

    A saving grace of the COVID-19 pandemic in high-income and upper middle-income countries has been the relative sparing of children. As the disease spreads across low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs), long-standing system vulnerabilities may tragically manifest, and we worry that children will be increasingly impacted, both directly and indirectly. Drawing on our shared child pneumonia experience globally, we highlight these potential im…

  • Examining the effectiveness of zinc treatment in children admitted with diarrhoea in Kenya’s public hospitals

    Open AccessLucas Malla, Rafael Perera et al.ARTICLEJournal of Global Health2019

    BACKGROUND: Kenyan paediatric treatment protocols recommend the use of zinc supplement for all children with diarrhoea. However, there is limited evidence of benefit for young children aged 1-5 months and those who are well-nourished. We examine effectiveness of zinc supplementation for children admitted with diarrhoea to Kenya's public hospitals with different nutritional and age categories. This is to determine whether the current policy where …