Test and treat
"Test and treat" or presumptive treatment for malaria in high transmission situations? A reflection on the latest WHO guidelines
... or test almost always varies according to the prevalence of the target ...“ test and treat ” strategy is not cost-effective, particularly in children and where the cost of treatment is lower than ...
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Health Worker Compliance with a ‘Test And Treat’ Malaria Case Management Protocol in Papua New Guinea
... ‘ test and treat ’ malaria case management protocol in ...the test and treat protocol on a wide range of measures, examines self-reported barriers to health worker compliance as well as health ...
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Adherence to treatment guidelines for uncomplicated malaria at two public health facilities in Nigeria; Implications for the ‘test and treat’ policy of malaria case management
... required to explore this), and 3) unaware of laboratory re- sults. Previous studies in the area have similarly reported unreliability of laboratory results as a major cause of treat- ment of slide negative ...
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A qualitative study of perceptions of a mass test and treat campaign in Southern Zambia and potential barriers to effectiveness
... A primary goal of MTAT is the reduction of parasit- aemia in the population amongst individuals not experi- encing symptoms severe enough to motivate them to visit a health facility. As a result, the success of these in- ...
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Decline in reported AIDS cases in Brazil after implementation of the test and treat initiative
... the Test and Treat Initiative in December 2013 and its sub- sequent implementation in 2014, offering early treat- ment to all HIV-positive adults, regardless of their CD4 cell counts or viral load; ...
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Universal test, treat, and keep: improving ART retention is key in cost effective HIV control in Uganda
... ‘universal test and treat’ strategy, combining universal ART eligibil- ity for all HIV positive people with a comprehensive programme of HIV testing ...
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Seek, test, treat: substance-using women in the HIV treatment cascade in South Africa
... HIV test, 36% of women with a positive test were unaware of their ...HIV test, the median number of months since their most recent test was ...to test and treat Black African men ...
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Test-and-treat approach to HIV/AIDS: a primer for mathematical modeling
... of test-and-treat has induced a need to justify goodness for the public, and mathematical modeling studies have played a key role in designing and evaluating the test-and-treat strategy for ...
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The outcome of a test treat package versus routine outpatient care for Ghanaian children with fever: a pragmatic randomized control trial
... the test-treat package, but the package also incorporated alternative diagnostic and treatment strategies for malaria-negative febrile ...stick test and were consequently treated with antibiotics and ...
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Operationalization of the test and not treat strategy to accelerate the elimination of onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis in Central Africa
... After 30 years of treatment with Mectizan (ivermectin), cutaneous and ocular complications of Onchocerca volvulus infection are now scarce in endemic communities. Indeed, transmission has been interrupted and the O. ...
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Rational use of Xpert testing in patients with presumptive TB: clinicians should be encouraged to use the test treat threshold
... settings clinicians should be encouraged to take clinical de- cisions and use scarce resources rationally. Moreover, clin- ical decision-making is nor linear or static, rather an iterative process. Every follow-up ...
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Cohort profile: seek, test, treat and retain United States criminal justice cohort
... Seek, Test, Treat and Retain (STTR) treatment or HIV care cascade is a challenging yet potentially benefi- cial response to addressing HIV in an era of effective treatments ...
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A screening program to test and treat for Helicobacter pylori infection: Cost utility analysis by age, sex and ethnicity
... screening test in the main results because of its feasibility, acceptability and ...screening test is a test of active infection, however the test costs more than serology, requires a sample ...
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Developing an Electronic Health Record Training Program for New Employees
... Planning to avoid weaknesses and threats by focusing on the program strengths will minimize problems on the trip and during the health post clinical time. Health post workers and volunteers are benevolent and altruistic, ...
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... Evaluation of a community pharmacy- led test-and-treat service for women with uncomplicated lower urinary tract infection in England. JAC-[r] ...
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Medizinischer und gesundheitskonomischer Nutzen der Untersuchung auf Helicobacter pylori-Besiedlung mittels 13C-Harnstoff-Atemtest in der Primrdiagnostik im Vergleich zu invasiven und nichtinvasiven diagnostischen Verfahren Efficacy and cost-effectiveness of the 13C-urea breath test as the primary diagnostic investigation for the detection of Helicobacter pylori infection compared to invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests
... All included studies had limitations to a greater or lesser extent. None of the included models is able to completely capture the complexity of managing patients with dyspep- tic complaints. This is due to the use of ...
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Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria and health workers’ adherence to test results at health facilities in Zambia
... not febrile. On counterchecking the parasitological results of the patients who received anti-malarials prior to labora- tory results, 84.0% were RDT-negative who should not otherwise have received anti-malarial ...
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Childhood hypophosphatasia: to treat or not to treat
... walk test for later gait analysis, quality of life inventory such as the Pediatric Outcomes Data Outcomes Instrument (PODCI), Rickets Severity Scale (RSS), and objective pain assessment by Wong-Baker or similar ...
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Screening and prevention of cervical cancers
... screening test or strategy (sequence of tests) and be linked to appropriate treatments for CIN, and also provide referral for treatment of women with invasive cervical ...(Pap test), and unaided visual ...
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Comparative Effectiveness of Amoxicillin and Amoxicillin-Clavulanate Potassium in Acute Paranasal Sinus Infections in Children: A Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
... The purpose of this study was to test the relative effectiveness of two similar antimicrobial prepara- tions, amoxicillin and amoxicillin-clavulanate po- tassium (Augmentin) in the treat[r] ...
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