Rapid diagnostic tests to improve treatment of malaria and other febrile illnesses: patient randomised effectiveness trial in primary care clinics in Afghanistan.

Autor:	Leslie, Toby, Mikhail, Amy, Mayan, Ismail, Cundill, Bonnie, Anwar, Mohammed, Mohammed, Nader, Bakhtash, Sayed Habib, Rahman, Habib, Zekria, Rohullah, M. Whitty, Christopher J., Rowland, Mark
Předmět:	MALARIA diagnosis MALARIA treatment DIAGNOSIS CLINICAL medicine research CONFIDENCE intervals FEVER MALARIA EVALUATION of medical care MICROSCOPY HEALTH outcome assessment POLYMERASE chain reaction PRIMARY health care RESEARCH funding RANDOMIZED controlled trials ODDS ratio SYMPTOMS
Zdroj:	BMJ: British Medical Journal; 6/28/2014, Vol. 348 Issue 7964, p12-12, 1p, 1 Chart
Abstrakt:	The article focuses on a study on significance of rapid diagnostic test (RDT) to improve treatment of malaria in primary care clinics in Afghanistan that was published in the June 2014 issue of the periodical. Topics discussed include comparison of rapid diagnostic test with microscopy and clinical diagnosis, funding by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for the study and accuracy of RDT to detect Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax.
Databáze:	Complementary Index
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