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Impact of a package of diagnostic tools, clinical algorithm, and training and communication on outpatient acute fever case management in low- and middle-income countries:  protocol for a randomized controlled trial

2020-11-11

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background. </bold>The management of acute febrile illnesses places a heavy burden on clinical services in many low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Bacterial and viral aetiologies of acute fevers are often clinically indistinguishable and, in the absence of diagnostic tests, the ‘just-in-case’ use of antibiotics by many health workers has become common practice, which has an...

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783937f1-5786-5337-b785-ae679d46ed9a
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10.21203/rs.3.rs-35083/v3
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