"Even if you know everything you can forget": Health worker perceptions of mobile phone text-messaging to improve malaria case-management in Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Jones, Caroline O H ^a,b,c   Wasunna, Beatrice ^a   Sudoi, Raymond ^a   Githinji, Sophie ^a   Snow, Robert W ^a,b   Zurovac, Dejan ^a,b,d  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTEMETHER; BENFLUMETOL;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; IN SERVICE TRAINING; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MALARIA; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; TEXT MESSAGING;

ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FLUORENES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84862169158     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038636     Document Type: Article

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