Reduction of anti-malarial consumption after rapid diagnostic tests implementation in Dar es Salaam: a before-after and cluster randomized controlled study
Open Access
- 29 April 2011
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Malaria Journal
- Vol. 10 (1), 107
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1475-2875-10-107
Abstract
Presumptive treatment of all febrile patients with anti-malarials leads to massive over-treatment. The aim was to assess the effect of implementing malaria rapid diagnostic tests (mRDTs) on prescription of anti-malarials in urban Tanzania.Keywords
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