Getting antimalarials on target: Impact of national roll-out of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on health facility treatment in three regions of Tanzania

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1269-1282

  Bruxvoort, Katia ^a,b   Kalolella, Admirabilis ^b   Nchimbi, Happy ^b   Festo, Charles ^b   Taylor, Mark ^a,b   Thomson, Rebecca ^a,b   Cairns, Matthew ^a   Thwing, Julie ^c   Kleinschmidt, Immo ^a   Goodman, Catherine ^a   Kachur, S Patrick ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotic use; Artemisinin based combination therapie; Drug stock outs; Implementation; Malaria; Malaria rapid diagnostic test; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ; COTRIMOXAZOLE;

BLOOD; DRUG; DRUG PRESCRIBING; HEALTH RISK; HEALTH SERVICES; HEALTH SURVEY; MALARIA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CASE MANAGEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; TANZANIA;

ANTIBIOTIC USE; ARTEMISININ-BASED COMBINATION THERAPIE; DRUG STOCK-OUTS; IMPLEMENTATION; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST; TANZANIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIMALARIALS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

TANZANIA;

EID: 84883741826     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tmi.12168     Document Type: Article

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