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Publication Date:
12/04/2018

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Universal versus conditional third day follow-up visit for children with nonsevere unclassified fever at the community level in Ethiopia: Protocol for a cluster randomized noninferiority trial
Author(s): Karin Källander, Tobias Alfven, Ayalkibet Abebe Workineh, Abreham Hailemariam, Max Petzold, Dawit Getachew, Lawrence Barat, Laura C Steinhardt, Julie R Gutman

Publication Date:
12/04/2018
Type:
Journal article

Background

Under the World Health Organization’s integrated community case management strategy, febrile children seen by community health workers (on day one) without a diagnosable illness and without danger signs are advised to return on day three, regardless of symptom resolution. This advice might be unnecessary and place additional time and cost burdens on caregivers and community health workers. However, the safety of not following up with respect to children with unclassified fever is unknown.

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Country: Ethiopia

Keywords: Child and maternal health | Diarrhoea | Malaria | Pneumonia | Case management | Diagnosis | iCCM | SDG3

 

 

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