'As a clinician, you are not managing lab results, you are managing the patient': How the enactment of malaria at health facilities in Cameroon compares with new WHO guidelines for the use of malaria tests

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1528-1535

  Chandler, Clare I R ^a   Mangham, Lindsay ^a   Njei, Abanda Ngu ^b   Achonduh, Olivia ^b   Mbacham, Wilfred F ^b   Wiseman, Virginia ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

Cameroon; Evidence based medicine; Malaria enactment; Rapid diagnostic test; Use of medicines; WHO

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE TREATMENT; GUIDELINE; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH WORKER; MALARIA; MEDICINE; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SERVICE PROVISION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INFECTION CONTROL; MALARIA; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; ANTIMALARIALS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CAMEROON; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BAMENDA; CAMEROON; CENTRE [CAMEROON]; NORD OUEST PROVINCE; YAOUNDE;

EID: 84859741636     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2012.01.025     Document Type: Article

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