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The added value of a mobile application of Community Case Management on referral, re-consultation and hospitalization rates of children aged under 5 years in two districts in Northern Malawi: study protocol for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge cluster-randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: There is evidence to suggest that frontline community health workers in Malawi are under-referring children to higher-level facilities. Integrating a digitized version of paper-based methods of Community Case Management (CCM) could strengthen delivery, increasing urgent referral rates an...

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Autores principales: Hardy, Victoria, O’Connor, Yvonne, Heavin, Ciara, Mastellos, Nikolaos, Tran, Tammy, O’Donoghue, John, Fitzpatrick, Annette L., Ide, Nicole, Wu, Tsung-Shu Joseph, Chirambo, Griphin Baxter, Muula, Adamson S., Nyirenda, Moffat, Carlsson, Sven, Andersson, Bo, Thompson, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5637321/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29020976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-017-2213-z