External Quality Assessment of Reading and Interpretation of Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests among 1849 End-Users in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through Short Message Service (SMS)

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Mukadi, Pierre ^a,b   Gillet, Philippe ^c   Lukuka, Albert ^a,d   Mbatshi, Joêl ^e   Otshudiema, John ^f   Muyembe, Jean Jacques ^a,g   Buyze, Jozefien ^c   Jacobs, Jan ^c   Lejon, Veerle ^c,h  

^a Institut National de Recherche Biomedicale   (Congo)

^b Sciences de la Santé   (Congo)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d Laboratoire National de Réference Paludisme Programme National de Lutte contre le Paludisme   (Congo)

^e Programme National de Lutte contre la Tuberculose   (Congo)

^f Integrated Health Project United States President's Malaria Initiative   (Congo)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KINSHASA   (Congo)

^h Institut de recherche pour le développement   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; MALARIA CONTROL; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH FACILITIES; HUMANS; MALARIA; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TEXT MESSAGING;

EID: 84881506415     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071442     Document Type: Article

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