An assessment of malaria diagnostic capacity and quality in Ghana and the Republic of Benin

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 108, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 662-669

  Keating, Joseph ^a   Finn, Timothy P ^a   Eisele, Thomas P ^a   Dery, Gilbert ^b   Biney, Ekow ^c   Kêdoté, Marius ^d   Fayomi, Benjamin ^d   Yukich, Joshua O ^a  

^a TULANE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DERMED Consult LLC   (Ghana)

^c GHANA HEALTH SERVICE   (Ghana)

^d Institut des Sciences Biomédicales Appliquées ISBA   (Benin)

Author keywords

Benin; Diagnostic; Ghana; Health facility; Malaria; Rapid assessment

Indexed keywords

ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIN; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; GHANA; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PRESCRIPTION; SAMPLE (STATISTICS); SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ADOLESCENT; AGED; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIMALARIALS; BENIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; GHANA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALARIA; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITEMIA; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929354979     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/tru127     Document Type: Article

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