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Improving inpatient medication adherence using attendant education in a tertiary care hospital in Uganda

QUALITY PROBLEM: Although widely utilized in resource-rich health care systems, the use of quality improvement (QI) techniques is less common in resource-limited environments. Uganda is a resource-limited country in Sub-Saharan Africa that faces many challenges with health care delivery. These chall...

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Autores principales:	Alupo, Patricia, Ssekitoleko, Richard, Rabin, Tracy, Kalyesubula, Robert, Kimuli, Ivan, Bodnar, Benjamin E.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Oxford University Press 2017
Materias:	Quality in Practice
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5890877/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28934403 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzx075

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