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Samuel Akech

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · KE
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Area of research
Epidemiology · Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
Research interest
Research interests include Sepsis Diagnosis and Treatment, Malaria Research and Control, Global Maternal and Child Health, and Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections.
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36
citations
20,195
works
141
NIH funding
primary concept
Medicine
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Recent publications

The Sepsis Chain of Survival: A Comprehensive Framework for Improving Sepsis Outcomes
Critical Care Medicine 2025cited by 19position: middledoi
A Pragmatic Trial of Glucocorticoids for Community-Acquired Pneumonia
New England Journal of Medicine 2025cited by 13position: middledoi
International Consensus Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock
JAMA 2024cited by 437position: middledoi
Development and Validation of the Phoenix Criteria for Pediatric Sepsis and Septic Shock
JAMA 2024cited by 189position: middledoi
Evaluation of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19 (COPCOV): A double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial
PLoS Medicine 2024cited by 12position: middledoi
Prospective clinical surveillance for severe acute respiratory illness and COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness in Kenyan hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic
BMC Infectious Diseases 2024cited by 1position: middledoi
Effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions and inpatient mortality in Kenya: a retrospective cohort study
2024cited by 0position: contributordoi
ACORN (A Clinically-Oriented Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Network) II: protocol for case based antimicrobial resistance surveillance.
2023cited by 7position: contributordoi
Pediatric prognostic models predicting inhospital child mortality in resource‐limited settings: An external validation study
Health Science Reports 2023cited by 3position: lastdoi
Patterns and determinants of antibiotic prescription among children admitted to public hospitals in Kenya: A cross-sectional observational study
2023cited by 0position: contributordoi
Malaria hospitalisation in East Africa: age, phenotype and transmission intensity
BMC Medicine 2022cited by 27position: middledoi
A proposed de-identification framework for a cohort of children presenting at a health facility in Uganda.
2022cited by 4position: contributordoi
The CINAMR (Clinical Information Network-Antimicrobial Resistance) Project: A pilot microbial surveillance using hospitals linked to regional laboratories in Kenya: Study Protocol.
2022cited by 2position: contributordoi
Examining the impact of implementing routine rotavirus vaccination on the number of paediatric admissions due to diarrhoea and dehydration in Kenyan hospitals: A study using interrupted time series analysis.
2022cited by 1position: contributordoi
A pragmatic randomized controlled trial of standard care versus corticosteroids plus standard care for treatment of pneumonia in adults admitted to Kenyan hospitals (SONIA).
2022cited by 1position: contributordoi
A proposed de-identification framework for a cohort of children presenting at a health facility in Uganda
2022cited by 0position: contributordoi
Neonatal mortality in Kenyan hospitals: a multisite, retrospective, cohort study
BMJ Global Health 2021cited by 86position: middledoi
Malaria infection and severe disease risks in Africa
Science 2021cited by 62position: middledoi
Malaria infection and severe disease risks in Africa.
2021cited by 37position: contributordoi
Common data elements for predictors of pediatric sepsis: A framework to standardize data collection.
2021cited by 27position: contributordoi
Using Machine Learning Methods Incorporating Individual Reader Annotations to Classify Paediatric Chest Radiographs in Epidemiological Studies.
2021cited by 1position: contributordoi
Using self-supervised feature learning to improve the use of pulse oximeter signals to predict paediatric hospitalization.
2021cited by 0position: contributordoi
Pediatric Sepsis Definition—A Systematic Review Protocol by the Pediatric Sepsis Definition Taskforce
Critical Care Explorations 2020cited by 63position: middledoi
Protecting children in low-income and middle-income countries from COVID-19
BMJ Global Health 2020cited by 46position: middledoi
Examining which clinicians provide admission hospital care in a high mortality setting and their adherence to guidelines: an observational study in 13 hospitals.
2020cited by 27position: contributordoi
The Clinical Profile of Severe Pediatric Malaria in an Area Targeted for Routine RTS,S/AS01 Malaria Vaccination in Western Kenya.
2020cited by 25position: contributordoi
Risk of pneumococcal bacteremia in Kenyan children with glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency
BMC Medicine 2020cited by 7position: middledoi
Serum Procalcitonin Levels in Children with Clinical Syndromes for Targeting Antibiotic Use at an Emergency Department of a Kenyan Hospital.
2020cited by 6position: contributordoi
Methodological rigor of prognostic models for predicting in-hospital paediatric mortality in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review protocol.
2020cited by 4position: contributordoi
Determining predictors of sepsis at triage among children under 5 years of age in resource-limited settings: A modified Delphi process.
2019cited by 25position: contributordoi

Grants

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Frequent collaborators

· 8 papers (2019–2024)Mike English · Center for Assessment5 papers (2019–2022)Niranjan Kissoon · BC Innovation Council4 papers (2019–2022)Kathryn Maitland · Kenya Medical Research Institute3 papers (2014–2018)Ambrose Agweyu · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine3 papers (2021–2024)Philip Bejon · University of Oxford3 papers (2022–2024)Morris Ogero · KEMRI-Wellcome Trust Research Programme Nairobi3 papers (2020–2022)Peter Olupot‐Olupot · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine3 papers (2014–2018)Robert W. Snow · The George Institute for Global Health3 papers (2020–2021)Morris Ogero · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine3 papers (2021–2023)Christopher Moore · Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 papers (2014–2017)Julius Nteziyaremye · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2014–2017)Sunetra Gupta · University of Oxford2 papers (2021–2021)Ambrose Agweyu · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2021–2021) · 2 papers (2018–2021)Ruth Khadembu Lucinde · University College London2 papers (2022–2024)J Mark Ansermino · University of British Columbia2 papers (2019–2019)Paul Turner · Imperial College London2 papers (2022–2023)Simon Kotlyar · London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine2 papers (2014–2017)Neema Mturi · Kenya Medical Research Institute1 papers (2021–2021)
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