Smart Triage
Smart Triage rapidly produces a simple and accurate risk prediction to prioritize care based on illness severity and reduce delays in treatment for children arriving to the hospital. This tool has been extensively validated in partnership with the University of British Columbia, Uganda Catholic Medical Bureau, Uganda Ministry of Health, and Kenya Medical Research Institute. […]
Smart Discharges
Smart Discharges improves transition in care by using risk-prediction to create personalized discharge and post-discharge care plans tailored to level of risk. Smart Discharges combines caregiver counselling and down-referrals, health worker training, and digital platforms for collecting, monitoring, and reporting on data to support improved care at the patient, health worker, and health facility level. […]
Sub-Saharan Africa Consortium for the Advancement of Innovative Research and Care in Sepsis (STAIRS)
We are lead of the STAIRS Network, a collaboration of eight research institutions in Africa and Germany that aim to foster research in sepsis. This includes identification of biomarkers for severe sepsis to aid in diagnosis and management and evaluation of different digital health strategies for improving sepsis care in-hospital and post-discharge for children and […]
The Africa Research Collaboration on Sepsis (ARCS)
ARCS is a multi-country collaboration sponsored by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine aimed to improve the survival and quality of life of patients hospitalized with sepsis through multidisciplinary applied health research at the health facility and health system levels. In its role as implementing partner in Uganda, Walimu conducted multiple studies to help address […]