Register for Research Day 2025
Join us for the 5th Annual Research Day on March 21, 2025.
Please review our Poster Instructions before you Register now to participate in this exciting event celebrating research excellence at Kijabe Hospital.
Themes for 2025
This year's event will focus on emerging research topics and quality improvement strategies. Here's a preview of some planned themes:
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Completed Research Projects
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Quality Improvement Initiatives
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Medical Education and Training Programs
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Ongoing Research Projects
Research Day 2024 Program
Thank you for joining us at the 4th Annual Research Day. Here's a look back at the program highlights and the impactful research presented.
View 2024 Itinerary
2024 Itinerary
- 7:00am - 7:05am: Opening Prayer by Dr. Arianna Shirk
- 7:05am - 7:10am: Introduction to Kijabe Research Department by Dr. Mary Adam
- 7:10am - 7:15am: Raffle Ticket Awards
- 7:15am - 8:00am: Oral Presentations
- 8:00am - 8:30am: Special Guest Interviews
- 8:30am - 10:30am: Poster Judging and Presentations
- 12:30pm - 1:30pm: Thematic Group Discussions
- 1:30pm - 1:35pm: Awards for Best Posters
- 1:35pm - 1:50pm: Cake Sharing and Closing Ceremony
View 2024 Poster Presentations
2024 Poster Presentations
Select a category to view the posters presented in each thematic track:
Completed Projects
- Clinical Characteristics, Treatment and Survival Outcomes for Cancer Patients
- Death and Coping: Perception of Nurses in Kenya
- Impact of Patient Deaths Among Healthcare Workers at AIC Kijabe Hospital Pediatric Department
- Factors Affecting Adherence to Treatment and Retention in Care Among Adolescents and Youth Living with HIV in Kenya
- Bacterial Nasal Carriage Among Outpatient Paediatric Patients at Kijabe Hospital
- Use of a Perioperative Data Collection Tool at a Rural District Hospital in Burundi
- Impact of Hydrocortisone on Pediatric Patients with Sepsis and Septic Shock Requiring Vasopressors
- A Qualitative Study of Family Replacement Donors: Promoters and Barriers to Future Voluntary Blood Donation
- Retrospective Analysis of Hemovigilance Practice at AIC Kijabe Hospital
- Strengthening AMR Surveillance: A Comparative Test of Accuracy of Five WHO Priority Pathogens
- Attitudes, Beliefs, and Practices toward End-of-Life Care Among Physicians in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Multimodal, Iterative Lung Ultrasound Training in Hypoxemic Respiratory Failure in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Oxygen Saturation Targets for Adults with Acute Hypoxemia in Low and Lower-Middle Income Countries
- Adherence to the Kijabe Hospital Protocol for Cardiotocographic Monitoring in Meconium-Stained Amniotic Fluid
Quality Improvement Projects
- To Improve Hba1c Test Uptake Among Adult Diabetic Patients at Engineer County Hospital
- Improving Screening of Diabetes in Manunga Health Center
- NHIF Utilization at JM Kariuki County Referral Hospital
- Treatment Optimization for Newly Diagnosed DM Patients in Ndaragwa Health Centre
- Improving the Availability of Metformin and HbA1C at Health Facilities in Nyandarua County
- Effective Diabetes Screening at Kasuku Health Centre - Oljororok
- Increasing Screening of Diabetic Complications at JM Kariuki County Hospital
- Using Group Discussion to Drive Intervention Co-Design: Reducing Blood Culture Contaminants
- Increase the Number of ANC Attendance and Deliveries through Maternal and Newborn Health Training
- Pre-intervention Survey to Evaluate Readiness for the Establishment of a Neuraxial Labor Analgesia Service in Kijabe, Kenya
- Addressing the Problem of Pediatric Central Line Associated Blood Stream Infections at AIC Kijabe Hospital
- Improving Documentation of Goals of Care Discussion in Outpatient Palliative Care at AIC Kijabe Hospital
- Blood Culture Contamination Quality Improvement Project
- Establishing Hemovigilance Practice at AIC Kijabe Hospital "Getting to Do It Right"
- Clinical Staff Knowledge and Practices on Gender-Based Violence in Kijabe Hospital
Medical Education and Training Programs
- Point of Care Ultrasound Training of Anesthesiology Residents in Kenya
- CME+ Increasing the Impact of Evidence-Based Training in NCDs with Quality Improvement
- Evaluation of the Medicalcpd.Africa Online Platform for Continuous Professional Development
Work in Progress
- Building Respiratory Support in East Africa through High Flow versus Standard Flow Oxygen Evaluation
- Hospital-Wide Longitudinal Surveillance for Hospital Acquired Infections at AIC Kijabe Hospital
- UTI Diagnosis Criteria Among Pediatric Patients at AIC Kijabe Hospital
- Patterns and Outcomes of Hemorrhagic and Infarctive Strokes at AIC Kijabe Mission Hospital
- Understanding Adolescent Transitions for Youth with Spina Bifida in a LMIC
- Healthcare Workers' Experiences of Providing Care to Children with Hydrocephalus
- Enhancing Communication for Children with Cerebral Palsy Through Pictorial Engagement
- Impacts of Sitting Aid Devices for Children with Physical Disabilities in Addressing Caregiver Challenges
- Patient Characteristics and One-Year Outcome for Heart Failure Patients in a Faith-Based Referral Hospital
- AI Assisted Detection of Pulmonary Tuberculosis on CXR at AIC Kijabe Hospital
- Pilot Study Comparing Efficacy of Trunk Targeted Control Training for Children with Cerebral Palsy
- Understanding Needs of People Living with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy through Healthcare Worker and Caregiver Perspectives
- Improving Patient Education in Diabetes
- Validation of Swahili Translation of NIH Stroke Scale in a Rural Tertiary Hospital in Kenya