Prescription practices and availability of artemisinin monotherapy in India: Where do we stand?

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Mishra, Neelima ^a   Anvikar, Anupkumar R ^a   Shah, Naman K ^a   Kamal, Vineet ^a   Sharma, Surya ^b   Srivastava, Harish ^c   Das, Manoj ^d   Pradhan, Khageswar ^e   Kumar, Hemant ^f   Gupta, Yogendra K ^g   Gupta, Pooja ^g   Dash, Aditya ^a   Valecha, Neena ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MALARIA RESEARCH   (India)

^b NIMR Field Unit   (India)

^c NIMR Field Unit   (India)

^d NIMR Field Unit   (India)

^e NIMR Field Unit   (India)

^f NIMR Field Unit   (India)

^g ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMISININ; ARTESUNATE; CHLOROQUINE; MEFLOQUINE; PYRIMETHAMINE PLUS SULFADOXINE; QUININE; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; PYRIMETHAMINE; SULFADOXINE; SULFADOXINE-PYRIMETHAMINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE MANAGEMENT; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; MALE; MONOTHERAPY; NEWBORN; PATIENT CARE; PHARMACIST; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; SCHOOL CHILD; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG RESISTANCE; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIVATE PRACTICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG RESISTANCE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA; PHARMACISTS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PUBLIC SECTOR; PYRIMETHAMINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SULFADOXINE;

EID: 83255188938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-360     Document Type: Article

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