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Referral Patterns of Community Health Workers Diagnosing and Treating Malaria: Cluster-Randomized Trials in Two Areas of High- and Low-Malaria Transmission in Southwestern Uganda

Malaria-endemic countries have implemented community health worker (CHW) programs to provide malaria diagnosis and treatment to populations living beyond the reach of health systems. However, there is limited evidence describing the referral practices of CHWs. We examined the impact of malaria rapid...

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Autores principales:	Lal, Sham, Ndyomugenyi, Richard, Magnussen, Pascal, Hansen, Kristian S., Alexander, Neal D., Paintain, Lucy, Chandramohan, Daniel, Clarke, Siân E.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2016
Materias:	Articles
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5154457/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27799650 http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.16-0598

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