Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of a Mobile Phone Text-Message Reminder Programmes to Improve Health Workers' Adherence to Malaria Guidelines in Kenya

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Zurovac, Dejan ^a,b,c   Larson, Bruce A ^c   Sudoi, Raymond K ^a   Snow, Robert W ^a,b  

^a KEMRI WELLCOME TRUST RESEARCH PROGRAMME   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; KENYA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MOBILE PHONE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT MONITORING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TEXT MESSAGING;

CELLULAR PHONE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84871259742     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052045     Document Type: Article

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