An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: Protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial

Implementation Science

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Menya, Diana ^a   Logedi, John ^b   Manji, Imran ^c   Armstrong, Janice ^a   Neelon, Brian ^d   O'Meara, Wendy Prudhomme ^a,d  

^a MOI UNIVERSITY   (Kenya)

^b KENYATTA NATIONAL HOSPITAL   (Kenya)

^c ACADEMIC MODEL PROVIDING ACCESS TO HEALTHCARE AMPATH   (Kenya)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ARTICLE; BACTERIOLOGY; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMICS; EDUCATION; FEVER; HUMAN; KENYA; MALARIA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MOTIVATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REIMBURSEMENT; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARD; CLINICAL TRIAL; STANDARDS;

ANTIMALARIALS; BACTERIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; BACTERIOLOGY; CASE MANAGEMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FEVER; HUMANS; KENYA; MALARIA; MOTIVATION; REIMBURSEMENT, INCENTIVE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84878250192     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-48     Document Type: Article

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