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Use of pre-hospital medication in children presenting with malaria to the emergency unit of Mulago Hospital, Uganda: A descriptive study

BACKGROUND: Initiation of specific antimalarial treatment within 24 hrs of fever onset at home and before presentation to the hospital is one of the strategies to reduce mortality from malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. In order to determine whether this strategy is being implemented we describe the use...

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Autores principales: Tumukunde, Victor S., Kiboneka, Elizabeth, John, Chandy C., Opoka, Robert O., Idro, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dutch Malaria Foundation 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5881584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29623255