Predictors of antibiotics co-prescription with antimalarials for patients presenting with fever in rural Tanzania

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Njozi, Mustafa ^a,b   Amuri, Mbaraka ^b,c   Selemani, Majige ^a,b   Masanja, Irene ^a,b   Kigahe, Brown ^a,b   Khatib, Rashid ^a,b   Kajungu, Dan ^b   Abdula, Salim ^a   Dodoo, Alexander N ^b  

^a IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^b Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

^c JHPIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Artemether lumefantrine; Co prescription; Cohort event monitoring; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; ARTEMETHER PLUS BENFLUMETOL; ARTEMISININ DERIVATIVE; DRUG COMBINATION; ETHANOLAMINE DERIVATIVE; FLUORENE DERIVATIVE;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; MALARIA; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRESCRIPTION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT; ARTICLE; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIMALARIALS; ARTEMISININS; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DRUG COMBINATIONS; DRUG PRESCRIPTIONS; ETHANOLAMINES; FEMALE; FEVER; FLUORENES; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PUBLIC SECTOR; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84888267956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-1097     Document Type: Article

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