Standardized data collection for multi-center clinical studies of severe malaria in African children: establishing the SMAC network.
The Severe Malaria in African Children (SMAC) network was established to conduct mortality-based trials. Although falciparum malaria kills more than one million children each year, single centers cannot enroll enough patients to detect reductions of 20-30% in mortality rates. Our aim was to quantify...
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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2006
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