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Monitoring health systems readiness and inpatient malaria case-management at Kenyan county hospitals

Malaria Journal, 2018
Background Change of severe malaria treatment policy from quinine to artesunate, a major malaria control advance in Africa, is compromised by scarce data to monitor policy translation into practice.
Dejan Zurovac, Beatrice Machini, Rebecca Kiptui, Dorothy Memusi, Beatrice Amboko, Samuel Kigen, Patricia Njiri, Ejersa Waqo   +7 more
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Application of whole-process comprehensive case-management in continuing nursing after radical surgery for cervical cancer (全程综合个案管理在宫颈癌根治术患者出院延续护理中的应用)

中西医结合护理, 2021
Objective To investigate the whole-process comprehensive case-management in continuing nursing care of discharged patients after radical surgery for cervical cancer.
QIN Yunxia (秦云霞), XU Rongfang (许容芳), WENG Lili (翁莉莉), JU Xiaomei (鞠小梅), LI Yinxia (李银霞)   +4 more
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How can malaria rapid diagnostic tests achieve their potential? A qualitative study of a trial at health facilities in Ghana. [PDF]

, 2010
BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) for malaria are at the early stages of introduction across malaria endemic countries. This is central to efforts to decrease malaria overdiagnosis and the consequent overuse of valuable anti-malarials and ...
Ansah, Evelyn K, Chandler, Clare IR, Whitty, Christopher JM   +2 more
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Major improvements in the quality of malaria case-management under the "test and treat" policy in Kenya.

PLoS ONE, 2014
BackgroundMonitoring implementation of the "test and treat" case-management policy for malaria is an important component of all malaria control programmes in Africa.
Dejan Zurovac, Sophie Githinji, Dorothy Memusi, Samuel Kigen, Beatrice Machini, Alex Muturi, Gabriel Otieno, Robert W Snow, Andrew Nyandigisi   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Evaluation of smartphone APP-based case-management services among antiretroviral treatment-naïve HIV-positive men who have sex with men: a randomized controlled trial protocol

BMC Public Health, 2020
Background Men who have sex with men (MSM) are disproportionally affected by HIV in China. ‘Treatment as Prevention’ is a promising strategy for HIV prevention but requires adequate adherence.
Xiaoyan Fan, Rui She, Cong Liu, Haidan Zhong, Joseph T. F. Lau, Chun Hao, Jinghua Li, Yuantao Hao, Linghua Li, Jing Gu   +9 more
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The treatment of non-malarial febrile illness in Papua New Guinea: findings from cross sectional and longitudinal studies of health worker practice [PDF]

, 2017
The Papua New Guinea Department of Health recently shifted from a presumptive to a ‘test and treat’ malaria case management policy. This shift was supported by the widespread introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in health facilities across the ...
Pulford, Justin
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The preventing recurrent vascular events and neurological worsening through intensive organized case-management (PREVENTION) trial protocol [clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT00931788]

Implementation Science, 2010
Background Survivors of transient ischemic attack (TIA) or stroke are at high risk for recurrent vascular events and aggressive treatment of vascular risk factors can reduce this risk.
Tsuyuki Ross, Thompson Ann, Fradette Miriam, Padwal Rajdeep S, Majumdar Sumit R, McAlister Finlay A, Grover Steven A, Dean Naeem, Shuaib Ashfaq   +8 more
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Progress towards implementation of ACT malaria case-management in public health facilities in the Republic of Sudan: a cluster-sample survey

BMC Public Health, 2012
Background Effective malaria case-management based on artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and parasitological diagnosis is a major pillar within the 2007-2012 National Malaria Strategic Plan in the Sudan.
Abdelgader Tarig M, Ibrahim Abdalla M, Elmardi Khalid A, Githinji Sophie, Zurovac Dejan, Snow Robert W, Noor Abdisalan M   +6 more
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Treatment of malaria restricted to laboratory-confirmed cases: a prospective cohort study in Ugandan children. [PDF]

, 2007
BACKGROUND: Presumptive treatment of malaria in febrile children is widely advocated in Africa. This may occur in the absence of diagnostic testing or even when diagnostic testing is performed but fails to detect malaria parasites. Such over-treatment of
Clark, Tamara D, Dorsey, Grant, Kamya, Moses R, Njama-Meya, Denise, Nzarubara, Bridget, Staedke, Sarah   +5 more
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Malaria case-management following change of policy to universal parasitological diagnosis and targeted artemisinin-based combination therapy in Kenya.

PLoS ONE, 2011
BackgroundThe change of malaria case-management policy in Kenya to recommend universal parasitological diagnosis and targeted treatment with artemether-lumefantrine (AL) is supported with activities aiming by 2013 at universal coverage and adherence to ...
Andrew Nyandigisi, Dorothy Memusi, Agneta Mbithi, Newton Ang'wa, Mildred Shieshia, Alex Muturi, Raymond Sudoi, Sophie Githinji, Elizabeth Juma, Dejan Zurovac   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source