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Management of febrile children under five years in hospitals and health centres of rural Ghana

BACKGROUND: The case management of febrile children in hospitals’ and health centres’ pre-roll out of the new WHO policy on parasitological diagnosis was assessed. The delivery of artemisinin combination therapy (ACT) at these two levels of the health system was compared. METHODS: Structured observa...

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Autores principales:	Webster, Jayne, Baiden, Frank, Bawah, Justina, Bruce, Jane, Tivura, Mathilda, Delmini, Rupert, Amenga-Etego, Seeba, Chandramohan, Daniel, Owusu-Agyei, Seth
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2014
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114131/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25008574 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-13-261

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