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Task Shifting Routine Inpatient Pediatric HIV Testing Improves Program Outcomes in Urban Malawi: A Retrospective Observational Study

BACKGROUND: This study evaluated two models of routine HIV testing of hospitalized children in a high HIV-prevalence resource-constrained African setting. Both models incorporated “task shifting,” or the allocation of tasks to the least-costly, capable health worker. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Two models...

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Autores principales: McCollum, Eric D., Preidis, Geoffrey A., Kabue, Mark M., Singogo, Emmanuel B. M., Mwansambo, Charles, Kazembe, Peter N., Kline, Mark W.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2835755/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20224782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009626