ReviewDiagnostics (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of the Diagnostic Accuracy of Mobile-Linked Point-of-Care Diagnostics in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 11 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Salmonella Isolates from Food Production Environments and Clinical Sources in the Middle East: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis Revealing the Limited Comparative Genomic Evidence.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Scoping review of artificial intelligence via mobile technology and social media for health in Africa.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Integrating Digital Health Innovations to Achieve Universal Health Coverage: Promoting Health Outcomes and Quality Through Global Public Health Equity.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Sustainable solutions to barriers of point-of-care diagnostic testing services in health facilities without laboratories in the bono region, Ghana: a qualitative study.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Improving transparency in malaria programme funds: A business case for connected diagnostics in Kenya.Journal of public health in Africa · 2024Article
- Review of Recent Prevalence of Urogenital Schistosomiasis in Sub-Saharan Africa and Diagnostic Challenges in the Field Setting.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Implementation Science: Bridging the Gap between Point-of-Care Diagnostics Research and Practice.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Point-of-Care Tests' Role in Time Metrics of Urgent Interventions in Emergency Department; a Systematic Review of Literature.Archives of academic emergency medicine · 2022Review
- mHealth in Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe: Context of current health, healthcare status, and demographic structure.Digital healthReview
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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Mobile health devices are emerging applications that could help deliver point-of-care (POC) diagnosis, particularly in settings with limited laboratory infrastructure, such as Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The advent of Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 has resulted in an increased deployment and use of mHealth-linked POC diagnostics in SSA. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the accuracy of mobile-linked point-of-care diagnostics in SSA. Our systematic review and meta-analysis were guided by the Preferred Reporting Items requirements for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis. We exhaustively searched PubMed, Science Direct, Google Scholar, MEDLINE, and CINAHL with full text via EBSCOhost databases, from mHealth inception to March 2021. The statistical analyses were conducted using OpenMeta-Analyst software. All 11 included studies were considered for the meta-analysis. The included studies focused on malaria infections,
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