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Why don't health workers prescribe ACT? A qualitative study of factors affecting the prescription of artemether-lumefantrine
BACKGROUND: Kenya recently changed its antimalarial drug policy to a specific artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT), artemether-lumefantrine (AL). New national guidelines on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention were developed and disseminated to health workers together with in-service train...
Autores principales: | Wasunna, Beatrice, Zurovac, Dejan, Goodman, Catherine A, Snow, Robert W |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2266770/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18252000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-7-29 |
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