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Improved Clinical and Microscopy Diagnosis at Primary Health Care in Tanzania

NCT00687895 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 3131

Last updated 2008-06-02

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

General objective: To improve the quality of fever case management in children in government health facilities in Tanzania Hypothesis:The training of health workers, as well as provision, training and use of microscopes for malaria diagnosis will improve the treatment of clinical episodes of fever in children while reducing the amount and costs of drugs

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Clinical algorithm and microscopy diagnosis of malaria

Clinical alogarithm The content of the package included 1. description of signs and symptoms of malaria disease 2. history taking relevant to malaria and physical examination 3. identification of danger signs and severe illness for referral 4. appropriate treatment 5. counseling patients on the use of drugs. Malaria microscopy. contents 1. make thick blood smears from patients with fever and stain with Giemsa 2. identify and count malaria parasites 3. maintain the microscope and store blood slides.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Anders Bjorkman, MD · Karolinska Institutet

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
6 Months
Max Age
59 Months
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-07-31
Primary Completion
2004-03-31
Completion
2004-03-31

Countries

  • Tanzania

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