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On prioritising global health’s triple crisis of sepsis, COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance: a mixed-methods study from Malawi

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, May 2022
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Title
On prioritising global health’s triple crisis of sepsis, COVID-19 and antimicrobial resistance: a mixed-methods study from Malawi
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, May 2022
DOI 10.1186/s12913-022-08007-0
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Paul Kawale, Levi Kalitsilo, Jessie Mphande, Bayode Romeo Adegbite, Martin P. Grobusch, Shevin T. Jacob, Jamie Rylance, Nyovani J. Madise

Abstract

Sepsis causes 20% of global deaths, particularly among children and vulnerable populations living in developing countries. This study investigated how sepsis is prioritised in Malawi's health system to inform health policy. In this mixed-methods study, twenty multisectoral stakeholders were qualitatively interviewed and asked to quantitatively rate the likelihood of sepsis-related medium-term policy outcomes being realised. Respondents indicated that sepsis is not prioritised in Malawi due to a lack of local sepsis-related evidence and policies. However, they highlighted strong linkages between sepsis and maternal health, antimicrobial resistance and COVID-19, which are already existing national priorities, and offers opportunities for sepsis researchers as policy entrepreneurs. To address the burden of sepsis, we recommend that funding should be channelled to the generation of local evidence, evidence uptake, procurement of resources and treatment of sepsis cases, development of appropriate indicators for sepsis, adherence to infection prevention and control measures, and antimicrobial stewardship.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 70 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Unspecified 6 9%
Researcher 6 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 6 9%
Student > Master 4 6%
Student > Bachelor 3 4%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 34 49%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 14%
Unspecified 6 9%
Engineering 4 6%
Environmental Science 3 4%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 3%
Other 11 16%
Unknown 34 49%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 December 2023.
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#4,705,920
of 25,563,770 outputs
Outputs from BMC Health Services Research
#2,186
of 8,704 outputs
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#99,071
of 446,407 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Health Services Research
#60
of 266 outputs
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