The clinical impact of combining intermittent preventive treatment with home management of malaria in children aged below 5years: Cluster randomised trial

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 280-289

  Tagbor, Harry ^a   Cairns, Matthew ^b   Nakwa, Emmanuel ^a   Browne, Edmund ^a   Sarkodie, Badu ^c   Counihan, Helen ^d   Meek, Sylvia ^d   Chandramohan, Daniel ^b  

^a KWAME NKRUMAH UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Ghana)

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

^c District Health Administration Ejisu Juaben   (Ghana)

^d MALARIA CONSORTIUM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Home; Intermittent; Malaria; Management; Preventive; Treatment

Indexed keywords

AMODIAQUINE PLUS ARTESUNATE;

CHILD HEALTH; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TREATMENT; DRUG PRESCRIBING; HEALTH SURVEY; MALARIA; MORBIDITY;

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; DIZZINESS; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; DYSPHAGIA; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; HEADACHE; HEART PALPITATION; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSOMNIA; INTERMITTENT PREVENTIVE THERAPY; JAUNDICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MOUTH PAIN; NAUSEA; PARASITEMIA; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRURITUS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RASH; RURAL AREA; SIDE EFFECT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINE COLOR; VOMITING; WEAKNESS;

ANEMIA; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PARASITEMIA; SEASONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

GHANA;

ARTESUNATE;

EID: 79951741165     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02699.x     Document Type: Article

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