Integrating Global and National Knowledge to Select Medicines for Children: The Ghana National Drugs Programme

PLoS Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Sinclair, David ^a   Gyansa Lutterodt, Martha ^b   Asare, Brian ^b   Koduah, Augustina ^b   Andrews, Edith ^c   Garner, Paul ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Ghana National Eye Care Programme   (Ghana)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ARTESUNATE; CAFFEINE CITRATE; CHLORHEXIDINE; PLACEBO; QUININE; ZINC SULFATE;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DIARRHEA; DRUG COST; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SAFETY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MALARIA; MEDICINE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN APNEA; NEWBORN SEPSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLICATION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TRAINING;

AGE FACTORS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG COSTS; DRUG INFORMATION SERVICES; DRUG THERAPY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; GHANA; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84878273522     PISSN: 15491277     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001449     Document Type: Article

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