Implementation experience during an eighteen month intervention to improve paediatric and newborn care in Kenyan district hospitals

Table 2 Summary of training provided to study hospitals at the start of the intervention and, for intervention hospitals, during the 18 months intervention period.

	H1	H2	H3	H4	H5	H6	H7	H8
Length of Initial Training (days)	5.5	5.5	5.5	5.5	1.5	1.5	1.5	1.5
Total staff at initial training	33	31	35	29	37	35	43	42
Doctors at initial training	1	2	3	4	1	0	4	1
Clinical Officers at initial training	8	8	11	2	11	2	4	4
Nurses at initial training	24	20	19	23	24	26	25	32
First external follow-up training*
Length (hours)	6	2	10	4	Control sites were given no further training
Total Trained	11	9	14	6
Second external follow-up training*
Length (hours)	3	2	3	10
Total Trained	7	14	8	8
Third external follow-up training*
Length (hours)	4	10	3	12
Total Trained	10	24	14	33
Fourth external follow-up training*
Length (hours)			3
Total Trained			27

For the timing of training see Table 2.
*External follow-up training was provided by the external supervisor, within or near the hospital, at the time of supervisory or survey visits and covered topics mostly but not exclusively related to the original ETAT+ training. Its aim was often to orient staff who had not attended the initial training to the practice guidelines and paediatric admission record forms.

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