Implementation of world health organization Integrated Management of Childhood Illnesses (IMCI) guidelines for the assessment of pneumonia in the under 5s in Rural Malawi

PLoS ONE

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2016, Pages

  Kalu, Ngozi ^a   Lufesi, Norman ^b   Havens, Deborah ^a   Mortimer, Kevin ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONSULTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL AREA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RURAL POPULATION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; HUMANS; MALAWI; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RURAL POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84969506966     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0155830     Document Type: Article

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