The treatment of non-malarial febrile illness in Papua New Guinea: findings from cross sectional and longitudinal studies of health worker practice
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- 作者：Olga P. M. Saweri ; Manuel W. Hetzel ; Ivo Mueller…
- 关键词：Malaria ; Febrile ; Treatment ; Diagnosis ; Prescription ; Health worker practice
- 刊名：BMC Health Services Research
- 出版年：2017
- 出版时间：December 2017
- 年：2017
- 卷：17
- 期：1
- 全文大小：453KB
- 刊物主题：Public Health; Health Administration; Health Informatics; Nursing Research;
- 出版者：BioMed Central
- ISSN：1472-6963
- 卷排序：17
文摘
BackgroundThe Papua New Guinea Department of Health recently shifted from a presumptive to a ‘test and treat’ malaria case management policy. This shift was supported by the widespread introduction of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in health facilities across the country. Health workers received training and job-aids detailing how to conduct and interpret a malaria rapid diagnostic test and how to treat test positive cases; however, little instruction on treating non-malaria febrile cases was provided. Accordingly, this study examined health worker case management of non-malarial febrile patients in the 12-month period immediately following the introduction of the revised malaria case management policy.