Randomised primary health center based interventions to improve the diagnosis and treatment of undifferentiated fever and dengue in Vietnam

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Phuong, Hoang L ^a,b   Nga, Tran Tt ^a,b   Giao, Phan T ^b   Hung, Le Q ^b   Binh, Tran Q ^b   Nam, Nguyen V ^c   Nagelkerke, Nico ^d   De Vries, Peter J ^a  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b CHO RAY HOSPITAL   (Viet Nam)

^c Binh Thuan Medical College   (Viet Nam)

^d UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UNIVERSITY   (United Arab Emirates)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENGUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIET NAM;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DENGUE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY CONTROL; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIETNAM;

EID: 77956664399     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-275     Document Type: Article

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