Prescriber and patient-oriented behavioural interventions to improve use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Tanzania: Facility-based cluster randomised trial

BMC Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Cundill, Bonnie ^a   Mbakilwa, Hilda ^b   Chandler, Clare I R ^a   Mtove, George ^c   Mtei, Frank ^b   Willetts, Annie ^d   Foster, Emily ^b   Muro, Florida ^b   Mwinyishehe, Rahim ^c   Mandike, Renata ^e   Olomi, Raimos ^b   Whitty, Christopher J M ^a   Reyburn, Hugh ^a  

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

^b KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL CENTRE   (Tanzania)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^d Wellsense International Public Health Consultants   (Kenya)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND SOCIAL WELFARE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

ACT; Behavioural interventions; Cluster randomised; Malaria; Primary care; Rapid diagnostic test; Tanzania

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE PRESCRIBING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALARIA RAPID TEST; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PEER GROUP; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; TEXT MESSAGING; ADOLESCENT; AFRICA; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; EDUCATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; RURAL POPULATION; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; TANZANIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84938959738     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0346-z     Document Type: Article

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