Journal article
The impact of an intervention to introduce malaria rapid diagnostic tests on fever case management in a high transmission setting in Uganda: A mixed-methods cluster-randomized trial (PRIME)
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria (mRDTs) have been scaled-up widely across Africa. The PRIME study evaluated an intervention aiming to improve fever case management using mRDTs at public health centers in Uganda.
METHODS: A cluster-randomized trial was conducted from 2010-13 in Tororo, a high malaria transmission setting. Twenty public health centers were randomized in a 1:1 ratio to intervention or control. The intervention …
Authors
Chandler CIR; Webb EL; Maiteki-Sebuguzi C; Nayiga S; Nabirye C; DiLiberto DD; Ssemmondo E; Dorsey G; Kamya MR; Staedke SG
Journal
PLOS ONE, Vol. 12, No. 3,
Publisher
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0170998
ISSN
1932-6203