Community-Based Malaria Testing Reduces Polypharmacy in a Population-Based Survey of Febrile Illness in Western Kenya

Community-Based Malaria Testing Reduces Polypharmacy in a Population-Based Survey of Febrile Illness in Western Kenya

Objective: The objective was to describe the relationship between the location of care, the malaria test result, and the type of medicine consumed for the fever, and to determine whether community-based access to malaria testing reduced polypharmacy.Methods: This is a secondary analysis of a cluster...

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Main Authors: Jeremiah Laktabai, Alyssa C. Platt, Elizabeth Turner, Indrani Saran, Joseph Kipkoech, Diana Menya, Wendy Prudhomme O’Meara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-08-01
Series:International Journal of Public Health
Subjects:
antibiotics
malaria
antimalarials
fever
polypharmacy
malaria testing
Online Access:https://www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10.3389/ijph.2022.1604826/full

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