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Register: PACTR
Last refreshed on: 29 April 2013
Main ID:  PACTR201011000262218
Date of registration: 12/11/2010
Primary sponsor: Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute (SwissTPH)
Public title: Improving quality of health care for Tanzanian children: Assessing the use of electronic decision
Scientific title: Improving quality of health care for Tanzanian children: Assessing the use of electronic decision support to promote evidence-based medicine and rational use of drugs
Date of first enrolment: 2010-11-15
Target sample size: 3090
Recruitment status: Not yet recruiting
URL:  HTTP://www.pactr.org/ATMWeb/appmanager/atm/atmregistry?da=true&tno=PACTR201011000262218
Study type:  interventional
Study design:  Parallel: different groups receive different interventions at same time during study,
Randomised,
Stratified allocation by health facilities.,
Allocation by health facilities the patient visited,
 
Countries of recruitment
South Africa
Contacts
Name: Clotilde  Rambaud
Address:  Kiko avenue PO Box 78373 Dar es Salaam United Republic of Tanzania
Telephone: +255778221305
Email: Clotilde.Rambaud@unibas.ch
Affiliation:  Research physician
Name: Clotilde  Rambaud
Address:  Kiko avenue PO Box 78373 Dar es Salaam United Republic of Tanzania
Telephone: +255778221305
Email: Clotilde.Rambaud@unibas.ch
Affiliation:  Research physician
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Child brought to health facility involved in the study
First visit for this illness episode
Consent form signed

Exclusion criteria: Follow up visit
Main complain trauma or surgical


Age minimum: 2 Month
Age maximum: 59 Month
Gender: Both
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Fever in children
Intervention(s)
Primary Outcome(s)
Appropriate diagnoses and treatment
Caretaker understanding
Health outcome
Rate of children being prescribed an antibiotic and antimalarial
Secondary Outcome(s)
Secondary ID(s)
130/09
NIMR/HQ/R.8a/Vol.IX/823
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Secondary Sponsor(s)
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