Trial reportThe American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene2012
Increased use of community medicine distributors and rational use of drugs in children less than five years of age in Uganda caused by integrated community case management of fever.
Trial report in The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Integrated community case management of childhood illness in low- and middle-income countries.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2021Pooled it
- Community health workers and stand-alone or integrated case management of malaria: a systematic literature review.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2014Pooled it
- Effect of community based interventions on childhood diarrhea and pneumonia: uptake of treatment modalities and impact on mortality.BMC public health · 2013Pooled it
- Home visits versus fixed-site care by community health workers and child survival: a cluster-randomized trial, Mali.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2024Trial
- Integrated community case management of malaria and pneumonia increases prompt and appropriate treatment for pneumonia symptoms in children under five years in Eastern Uganda.Malaria journal · 2013Trial
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- The impact of equity factors on receipt of timely appropriate care for children with suspected malaria in eastern Uganda.BMC public health · 2021Article
- Barriers to the utilization of community-based child and newborn health services in Ethiopia: a scoping review.Health policy and planning · 2021Article
- Drought and Illness among Young Children in Uganda, 2009-2012.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2020Article
- Integrated community case management in a peri-urban setting: a qualitative evaluation in Wakiso District, Uganda.BMC health services research · 2017Article
- Integrated community case management by drug sellers influences appropriate treatment of paediatric febrile illness in South Western Uganda: a quasi-experimental study.Malaria journal · 2017Article
- Use of pre-hospital medication in children presenting with malaria to the emergency unit of Mulago Hospital, Uganda: A descriptive study.MalariaWorld journal · 2017Article
- Where there is no doctor: can volunteer community health workers in rural Uganda provide integrated community case management?African health sciences · 2017Article
- Determinants of Utilization and Community Experiences with Community Health Volunteers for Treatment of Childhood Illnesses in Rural Sierra Leone.Journal of community health · 2016Article
- Pneumococcal Carriage in Children under Five Years in Uganda-Will Present Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccines Be Appropriate?PloS one · 2016Article
- Determinants of Utilization of Health Extension Workers in the Context of Scale-Up of Integrated Community Case Management of Childhood Illnesses in Ethiopia.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2015Article
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- Demand generation and social mobilisation for integrated community case management (iCCM) and child health: Lessons learned from successful programmes in Niger and Mozambique.Journal of global health · 2014Article
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Abstract
We compared use of community medicine distributors (CMDs) and drug use under integrated community case management and home-based management strategies in children 6-59 months of age in eastern Uganda. A cross-sectional study with 1,095 children was nested in a cluster randomized trial with integrated community case management (CMDs treating malaria and pneumonia) as the intervention and home-based management (CMDs treating only malaria) as the control. Care-seeking from CMDs was higher in intervention areas (31%) than in control areas (22%; P = 0.01). Prompt and appropriate treatment of malaria was higher in intervention areas (18%) than in control areas (12%; P = 0.03) and among CMD users (37%) than other health providers (9%). The mean number of drugs among CMD users compared with other health providers was 1.6 versus 2.4 in intervention areas and 1.4 versus 2.3 in control areas. Use of CMDs was low. However, integrated community case management of childhood illnesses increased use of CMDs and rational drug use.
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