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Antimalarial drug prescribing practice in private and public health facilities in South-east Nigeria: a descriptive study

BACKGROUND: Nigeria's national standard has recently moved to artemisinin combination treatments for malaria. As clinicians in the private sector are responsible for attending a large proportion of the population ill with malaria, this study compared prescribing in the private and public sector...

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Autores principales:	Meremikwu, Martin, Okomo, Uduak, Nwachukwu, Chukwuemeka, Oyo-Ita, Angela, Eke-Njoku, John, Okebe, Joseph, Oyo-Ita, Esu, Garner, Paul
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2007
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1867820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17480216 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-6-55

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