Research and Quality Improvement

Published research projects

  1. Tuyishime; J. P. Mvukiyehe; Vincent K. Cubaka et al. Post-delivery complications and quality of birth practice in district hospitals in Rwanda:       A cross sectional study. Rwanda Medical Journal, Vol 77, no 3, pp 1-7, 2020.
  2. Tuyishime; J. P. Mvukiyehe; Vincent K. Cubaka et al. Improving post-delivery complications and quality of birth practice in district hospitals in Rwanda. Rw. Public Health Bul. 2020
  3. Tuyishime E. Factors influencing choice of anesthesia as a Career by Undergraduates of the University of Rwanda. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2017. doi: 10.1213/ANE.0000000000002481
  4. Eugene Tuyishime, William F. Powell, Faye M. Evans; Anesthesiology Training in LMICs: Defining the Problem, Challenges, and Solutions. ASA Monitor 2021; 85:35–36 doi: https://doi.org/10.1097/01.ASM.0000795116.04062.61
  5. Eugene Tuyishime, Marcel Durieux, Paulin Ruhato Banguti. The Rwanda Anesthesia Residency Program: A Model for Graduate Medical Education in Low and Middle-Income Countries, Journal of Graduate Medical Education 2019, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4300/JGME-D-18-01031.1
  6. Tuyishime E.et al. The quality of pre-operative preparation of patients undergoing elective surgery at the university teaching hospital of kigali (CHUK). Rw. Public Health Bul. 2019; 1(2):11-15
  7. William McKay, Danyela Lee, Adolphe Masu, Shefali Thakore, Eugene Tuyishime, Joseph Niyitegeka, Paulin Ruhato, Theogene Twagirumugabe & Jennifer O’Brien (2019) Surveys of Post-operative Pain Management in a Teaching Hospital in Rwanda – 2013 and 2017, Canadian Journal of Pain, DOI: 1080/24740527.2019.1673158
  8. Egide Abahuje, Irenee Niyongombwa, David Karenzi, Jeanne D’ Arc Bisimwa, Eugene Tuyishime, Faustin Ntirenganya, Jennifer Rickard, Malnutrition in Acute Care Surgery Patients in Rwanda, World J Surg, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00268-019-05355-7
  9. Eugene Tuyishime, Paulin Ruhato Banguti, Jean Paul Mvukiyehe, Faustin Ntirenganya, Marcel Durieux, Giles Cattermole, Using the World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) triage tool to evaluate timing of emergency surgery in Rwanda, World J Surg, DOI: 10.1007/s00268-020-05372-x
  10. Tuyishime, B. Kalala, K. Laaman, J.P. Mershon, J. Uwineza, M. Durieux, P. Banguti, Admission Indications and Outcomes of Obstetric Patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the University Teaching Hospital of Kigali (CHUK) – a retrospective descriptive study, Rwanda Medical Journal 2020.
  11. Mvukiyehe, J. P., Tuyishime, A. Ndindwanimana, J. Rickard, O. Manzi, G. Madden, M. Durieux, and P. Banguti. “Improving Hand Hygiene Measures in Low-Resourced Intensive Care Units: Experience at the Kigali University Teaching Hospital in Rwanda”. International Journal of Infection Control, Vol. 17, no. 1, Sept. 2021, doi:10.3396/ijic.v17.20585.
  12. Rediet Shimeles Workneh, Eugene Tuyishime, Mbangu Mumbwe, Elizabeth Namugaya Igaga, M. Dylan Bould. Not a “first world problem” Care of the anesthetist in East and Southern Africa. Pediatric Anesthesia. 2020;00:1–8. DOI: 10.1111/pan.14054
  13. Global PaedSurg Research Collaboration. Mortality from gastrointestinal congenital anomalies at 264 hospitals in 74 low-income, middle-income, and high-income countries: a multicentre, international, prospective cohort study. Lancet July 13, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00767-4
  14. Tuyishime E, McIsaac DI, Mumbwe MC, et al. Burnout Syndrome Among Anesthesia Providers Working in Public Hospitals in Rwanda: A Cross-Sectional Survey [published online ahead of print, 2022 Apr 22]. Anesth Analg. 2022; doi:10.1213/ANE.0000000000006053  

 

Quality improvement projects

  1. Eugene Tuyishime, Paul H. Park, Dominique Rouleau, Patricia Livingston, Paulin Ruhato Banguti, and Rex Wong. Impact of implementing the WHO safe childbirth checklist on essential birth practices delivered in one district hospital in Rwanda: A pre and post implementation study. BMC journal of maternal health, perinatology, and neonatology 2018. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40748-018-0075-3
  2. Eugene Tuyishime; Honorine Ingabire; Jean Paul Mvukiyehe, et al. Implementing the Risk Identification (RI) and Modified Early Obstetric Warning Signs (MEOWS) tool in district hospitals in Rwanda: A cross-sectional study. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-020-03187-1  
  3. Molina RL, Pichumani A, Tuyishime E, Bobanski L, Semrau KEA. Promising practices for adapting and implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist: case studies from India and Rwanda. Journal of Global Health Reports.:e2021; 110. https://doi.org/10.29392/001c.30751
  4. Adam I. Mossenson, Eugene Tuyishime, et al, Promoting anaesthetisia providers’ non-technical skills through the Vital Anaesthesia Simulation Training (VAST) course in a low resource Setting (2019), British Journal of Anesthesia, doi: 10.1016/j.bja.2019.10.022
  5. D Hopkinson, K Akuamoah-Boateng; P Banguti; J P Mvukiyehe; C Zerfoss; E Tuyishime; K Hertel; D Starling; A Bethea; B Moses; A Syed. The impact of the Fundamental Critical Course on knowledge acquisition in Rwanda. South Afr J Crit Care 2022:38(1):14-19. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAJCC.2022.v38i1.491

Our motivation

We believe that all patients should have access to high quality of maternal, resuscitation, and perioperative care.

 

Research and quality improvement efforts are essential to achieve that goal. See why we implemented the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist in one district hospital in Rwanda.

 

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