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The impact of providing rapid diagnostic malaria tests on fever management in the private retail sector in Ghana: a cluster randomized trial

Objective To examine the impact of providing rapid diagnostic tests for malaria on fever management in private drug retail shops where most poor rural people with fever present, with the aim of reducing current massive overdiagnosis and overtreatment of malaria. Design Cluster randomized trial of 24...

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Autores principales:	Ansah, Evelyn K, Narh-Bana, Solomon, Affran-Bonful, Harriet, Bart-Plange, Constance, Cundill, Bonnie, Gyapong, Margaret, Whitty, Christopher J M
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BMJ Publishing Group Ltd. 2015
Materias:	Research
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353311/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25739769 http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h1019

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