Patients with positive malaria tests not given artemisinin-based combination therapies: a research synthesis describing under-prescription of antimalarial medicines in Africa

BACKGROUND: There has been a successful push towards parasitological diagnosis of malaria in Africa, mainly with rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs), which has reduced over-prescribing of artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACT) to malaria test-negative patients. The effect on prescribing for test-p...

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Autores principales: O’Boyle, Shennae, Bruxvoort, Katia J., Ansah, Evelyn K., Burchett, Helen E. D., Chandler, Clare I. R., Clarke, Siân E., Goodman, Catherine, Mbacham, Wilfred, Mbonye, Anthony K., Onwujekwe, Obinna E., Staedke, Sarah G., Wiseman, Virginia L., Whitty, Christopher J. M., Hopkins, Heidi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6990477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31996199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1483-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6990477/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31996199
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-019-1483-6

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