{"id":64084,"date":"2013-03-21T10:10:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T14:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?page_id=64084"},"modified":"2017-05-25T10:30:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-25T14:30:53","slug":"ocavs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/whats-happening\/highlights\/ocavs\/","title":{"rendered":"Omphalitis Community Based Algorithm Validation Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>BU Center for Global Health &amp; Development<\/h4>\n<p><b>Principal Investigator: Julie Herlihy<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Boston University Co-Investigators: Davidson Hamer, Katherine Semrau, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Arthur Mazimba, Caroline Grogan<\/b><br \/>\n<b>Collaborators: Ministry of Health, Zambia and the Zambia Center for Applied Health Research and Development (ZCAHRD)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><H3>Introduction<\/H3><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:300px; margin-top: 0px;\" class=\"alignright\">\n<a href=\"\/tech\/files\/2013\/03\/ocavs.jpg\" style=\"border-bottom-width: 0px;\"><img src=\"\/tech\/files\/2013\/03\/ocavs-sm.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Omphalitis (umbilical cord infection) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in newborns in developing countries.  In areas where medical facilities and personnel are not available, lay health workers trained in community-based algorithms may be employed to conduct diagnoses.  In a trial being conducted in Zambia, researchers in BU&#8217;s Center for Global Health &amp; Development are testing the diagnoses by lay health workers against those of an on-site physician as well as a board-certified physician located in the US working with photographs.<\/p>\n<p><H3>RCS Contribution<\/H3><\/p>\n<p>RCS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/support\/research\/rcs\/staff\/\">staff members<\/a> Robert Putnam and Erik Brisson developed the remote pictorial assessment component of this project. <\/p>\n<h5>More Information<\/h5>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cghd\/our-work\/projects\/omphalitis-community-based-algorithm-validation-study\/\">a description of this project<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cghd\/\">BU Center for Global Health &amp; Development site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:250px; margin-top: 0px;\" class=\"alignright\">\n<div style=\"text-align:right;\"><strong><a href=\"mailto:rcs@bu.edu\">Contact RCS for Assistance<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU Center for Global Health &amp; Development Principal Investigator: Julie Herlihy Boston University Co-Investigators: Davidson Hamer, Katherine Semrau, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Arthur Mazimba, Caroline Grogan Collaborators: Ministry of Health, Zambia and the Zambia Center for Applied Health Research and Development (ZCAHRD) Introduction Omphalitis (umbilical cord infection) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality in newborns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1692,"featured_media":0,"parent":57322,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64084"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1692"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64084"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107468,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64084\/revisions\/107468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/57322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}