External quality assessment on the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in a non-endemic setting

Malaria Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Gillet, Philippe ^a   Mukadi, Pierre ^b   Vernelen, Kris ^c   Van Esbroeck, Marjan ^a   Muyembe, Jean Jacques ^b   Bruggeman, Cathrien ^d   Jacobs, Jan ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b Institute National de Recherches Biomédicales INRB   (Congo)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Belgium)

^d MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; CLINICAL LABORATORY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; LUXEMBOURG; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; MICROSCOPY; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; PLASMODIUM OVALE; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; VALIDATION STUDY; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

BELGIUM; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; HUMANS; LUXEMBOURG; PARASITOLOGY; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 78649924175     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-9-359     Document Type: Article

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