Why don't health workers prescribe ACT? A qualitative study of factors affecting the prescription of artemether-lumefantrine

Malaria Journal

Volumn 7, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Wasunna, Beatrice ^a,b   Zurovac, Dejan ^b,c,d   Goodman, Catherine A ^b,e   Snow, Robert W ^b,c  

^a KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^b KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; BENFLUMETOL; FANSIDAR; QUININE; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER; ARTEMISININ; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL STAFF; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCRIPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RURAL AREA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG COMBINATION; GOVERNMENT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FLUORENES; GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 40749116069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-7-29     Document Type: Article

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