Other Clinical Trials Conducted by Keprecon
The Kenya Paediatric Research Consortium (Keprecon) has conducted numerous clinical trials and studies from 2008 to 2026, focusing on various aspects of child and maternal health. These include research on emergency triage, trauma care, infection prevention, antibiotic resistance, neonatal care, sepsis, COVID-19, pneumonia treatment, antimicrobial resistance, and breastfeeding support.
The studies span diverse areas such as clinical interventions, surveillance, data collection, and health service delivery redesign, highlighting Keprecon’s commitment to improving healthcare outcomes for children and mothers in Kenya.
Emergency Triage Assessment and Treatment Plus (ETAT+) and Hospital Survey | 2008-2025 | |
Primary Trauma Care (PTC) Course in hospital facilities | 2013-2014 | |
Pulse Oximetry Automation Study | 2014-2017 | |
Preliminary Exploration of Infection Prevention and Control and Antibiotic Stewardship to Avert Antibiotic Resistance in Kenyan Hospitals (IPC Study) | 2017-2018 | |
Neonatal Nursing Task Analysis: Describing the tasks done by nurses caring for the sick newborns in Kenyan health-facilities | 2017-2018 | |
Nursing observation study | 2017-2018 | |
Role of Nurses in Quality Health Care | 2018 | |
Neonatal Bacteremia (NeoBAC) surveillance study | 2020-2023 | |
Paediatric Rapid Sepsis Trigger (PRST) study | 2020-2023 | |
Hospital based Sentinel Surveillance for National COVID-19 Retrospective Data Collection | 2020-2021 | |
COVID-19 Surveillance and Research within KNH | 2020-2021 | |
Retrospective Address Data Collection | 2021-2022 | |
Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Standard Care Versus Steroids Plus Standard Care for Treatment of Pneumonia in Adults Admitted to Kenyan Hospitals. Steroids for pneumonia in adults in Kenya (SONIA Trial) | 2021-2024 | |
Clinically Oriented Antimicrobial Resistance Network (ACORN 2) Study implementation of clinical antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance of hospitalized patients with suspected acute bacterial infections | 2021-2024 | |
Clinical Information Network Antimicrobial Resistance (CINAMR)Project: A pilot microbial surveillance using hospitals linked to regional laboratories in Kenya | 2021-2024 | |
Retrospective Data Collection | 2021-2022 | |
RESPECT Study: Exploring the potential for using parent experiences of pre-term birth to improve care in LMICs, using video narratives and digital stories | 2022 | |
Steroids for Pneumonia Trial (SONIA) and Syndromic Surveillance study | 2023-2024 | |
Maternal & Newborn Health Service Delivery Redesign (SDR) feasibility assessment in selected county hospitals-Keprecon enumerators support | 2023-2024 | |
Primary Health Care (PHC) reforms in Kenya-Data collection in 24 counties with CIN sites (120 data collectors) | 2023-2024 | |
MN-optimize micronutrients of maternal supplements in Kenya-VIRUTUBISHO Project | 2024-2025 | |
The IBAMI-2 Study aims at Providing breastfeeding support during and after discharge from hospital to improve growth and development of malnourished infants recovering from a serious illness | 2024-2026 |