Improving early infant HIV diagnosis in Kenya: Study protocol of a cluster-randomized efficacy trial of the HITSystem

Implementation Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Finocchario Kessler, Sarah ^a   Goggin, Kathy ^b   Khamadi, Samoel ^c,d   Gautney, Brad ^e   Dariotis, Jacinda K ^f,g   Bawcom, Charles ^e   Cheng, An Lin ^b   Nazir, Niaman ^a   Martin, Catherine ^a   Ruff, Andrea ^f   Sweat, Michael ^h   Okoth, Vincent ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^c KENYA MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Kenya)

^d Chunya District Council Health Department   (Tanzania)

^e Global Health Innovations   (United States)

^f JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^h MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Early infant diagnosis; HITSystem; HIV exposed infants; Kenya

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; INFANT; KENYA; NEWBORN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TIME FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KENYA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84936742370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17485908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13012-015-0284-3     Document Type: Article

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