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My name is Stephen. I am a medical doctor and an epidemiologist. I have done prior work on using vital signs to monitor the treatment of acutely-ill patients in Uganda. I will put the links to this prior work below. We are setting up for a follow up study investigating whether lay people (i.e., non-medically trained individuals) can successfully monitor acutely-ill patients.
This idea is important in low-resource settings with limited numbers of trained health workers. In these settings, lay people, called "attendants", usually accompany sick relatives or friends to the hospital. Following their patient's admission, attendants will often sit by their patient's bedside and watch, helplessly, as their patient detoriorates, or improves, whichever happens to be the case. These people could actually assist the limited numbers of doctors and nurses in these settings to monitor and follow up on sick patients, which may improve outcomes.
There are no prior studies supporting this expectation.
Please help me reach my goal of 25,000USD to fund the proposed study on the feasibility of using vital signs to monitor the treatment of acutely-ill patients in Uganda. This is a mixed methods study. The qualitative component will explore attitudes towards vital signs monitoring by lay individuals (people without any prior medical training). The quantitative component will further analyze associations between vital signs and outcomes. The money raised will be used to pay for institutional review board (IRB) fees in Uganda, to purchase supplies and materials for the study (we will enroll about 500 participants for the quantititative components and about 20 participants for the qualitative component), and to pay stipends for study personnel (partial support for 5 health workers involved in the study for a period of 1 year).
Any amount greater or equal to 1$ can make a difference and will be greatly appreciated.
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