Quantifying health facility service readiness for small and sick newborn care: comparing standards-based and WHO level-2 + scoring for 64 hospitals implementing with NEST360 in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania

Service readiness tools are important for assessing hospital capacity to provide quality small and sick newborn care (SSNC). Lack of summary scoring approaches for SSNC service readiness means we are unable to track national targets such as the Every Newborn Action Plan targets.

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Penzias, R. E., Bohne, C., Gicheha, E., Molyneux, E. M., Gathara, D., Ngwala, S. K., Zimba, E., Rashid, E., Odedere, O., Dosunmu, O., Tillya, R., Shabani, J., Cross, J. H., Ochieng, C., Webster, H. H., Chiume, M., Dube, Q., Wainaina, J., Kassim, I., … with the Health Facility Assessment Data Collection Learning Collaborative Group. (2024). Quantifying health facility service readiness for small and sick newborn care: Comparing standards-based and WHO level-2 + scoring for 64 hospitals implementing with NEST360 in Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, and Tanzania. BMC Pediatrics, 23(2), 656. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12887-024-04578-5

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