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Improvement in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease management and prevention using a health centre-based continuous quality improvement approach

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major health concern for Aboriginal Australians. A key component of RHD control is prevention of recurrent acute rheumatic fever (ARF) using long-term secondary prophylaxis with intramuscular benzathine penicillin (BPG). This is the most important...

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Autores principales: Ralph, Anna P, Fittock, Marea, Schultz, Rosalie, Thompson, Dale, Dowden, Michelle, Clemens, Tom, Parnaby, Matthew G, Clark, Michele, McDonald, Malcolm I, Edwards, Keith N, Carapetis, Jonathan R, Bailie, Ross S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3878366/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24350582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-525