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The effect of mobile phone text message reminders on health workers’ adherence to case management guidelines for malaria and other diseases in Malawi: lessons from qualitative data from a cluster-randomized trial

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Background Mobile health (mHealth), which uses technology such as mobile phones to improve patient health and health care delivery, is increasingly being tested as an intervention to promote health worker (HW) performance. This study assessed the effect of short messaging services (SMS) reminders in a study setting. Following a trial of text-message reminders to HWs to improve case management of malaria and other childhood diseases in southern Malawi that showed little effect... Expand abstract
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Published
Peer review status:
Peer reviewed

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10.1186/s12936-018-2629-2

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ORCID:
0000-0003-0540-9940
Publisher:
BioMed Central Publisher's website
Journal:
Malaria Journal Journal website
Volume:
17
Article number:
481
Publication date:
2018-12-19
Acceptance date:
2018-12-13
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EISSN:
1475-2875
Pmid:
30567603
Language:
English
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pubs:954628
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uuid:b5c418ac-6777-4c55-a67f-4173f844f52c
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pubs:954628
Source identifiers:
954628
Deposit date:
2019-01-23

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