Journal article
The effect of mobile phone text-message reminders on Kenyan health workers' adherence to malaria treatment guidelines: A cluster randomised trial
- Abstract:
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Health workers' malaria case-management practices often differ from national guidelines. We assessed whether text-message reminders sent to health workers' mobile phones could improve and maintain their adherence to treatment guidelines for outpatient paediatric malaria in Kenya. From March 6, 2009, to May 31, 2010, we did a cluster-randomised controlled trial at 107 rural health facilities in 11 districts in coastal and western Kenya. With a computer-generated sequence, health facilities wer...
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- Journal:
- Lancet
- Volume:
- 378
- Issue:
- 9793
- Pages:
- 795-803
- Publication date:
- 2011-08-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1474-547X
- ISSN:
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0140-6736
- Source identifiers:
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179647
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:179647
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- pubs:179647
- Deposit date:
- 2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2011
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