{"id":5,"date":"2021-08-16T15:27:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T19:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/technology-to-improve-decision-making-neonatal-outcomes-in-special-neonatal-care-units-in-india\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T14:57:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T18:57:09","slug":"technology-to-improve-decision-making-neonatal-outcomes-in-special-neonatal-care-units-in-india","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/","title":{"rendered":"Technology to Improve Decision Making &#038; Neonatal Outcomes in Special Neonatal Care Units in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Specific Aims<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The overarching goal of this project is to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">prepare for the development of a <\/span>platform <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(clinical testing site, digital data visualizations, and<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recommendations for data interoperability) for rapid and efficient conduct of clinical trials to test \u201c<span style=\"color: #800080;\">Best Bundles for Babies<\/span>\u201d of existing and new medical<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">equipment to enhance newborn care in India, particularly in SNCUs. Our focus is SNCUs within the Indian Government Health Sector. Specifically,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the project describes current facilitators, barriers, gaps and needs for medical equipment in a range of SNCUs Government Hospitals in Maharashtra <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">with a view to improving triage decisions and optimal monitoring of newborns using a range of qualitative and quantitative methods. The specific aims of the project are as followed:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To select a range of SNCUs with 12-60 beds in the Central India, to describe the population and the clinical needs of the population that the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SNCU serves; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>To conduct focus groups, followed by in-depth interviews, with hospital administrators, and SNCU clinical and support staff to understand<span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>barriers and facilitators to optimal clinical decision making in the SNCU and unmet needs that could be addressed by medical equipment to<\/span><span>\u00a0 <\/span><span>enhance care of newborns in the SNCUs;<\/span><span> \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li>To conduct in-depth interviews to explore and begin to identify the timely, pertinent and intuitive data<span>5 <\/span><span>and equipment that are needed by\u00a0 health care workers <\/span><span>to prepare for a future data collection platform <\/span><span>that will effectively triage and monitor the clinical status of newborns in\u00a0 the SNCUs; <\/span><\/li>\n<li>To understand how SNCUs monitor their current medical equipment and to refine and develop new methods for to optimize data <span>\u00a0<\/span><span>collection and visualization to address identified needs.\u00a0<\/span><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Specific Aims The overarching goal of this project is to prepare for the development of a platform (clinical testing site, digital data visualizations, and\u00a0 recommendations for data interoperability) for rapid and efficient conduct of clinical trials to test \u201cBest Bundles for Babies\u201d of existing and new medical\u00a0 equipment to enhance newborn care in India, particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19618,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/bb4b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}