Community-Based Malaria Testing Reduces Polypharmacy in a Population-Based Survey of Febrile Illness in Western Kenya

• Main Authors: Jeremiah Laktabai (Author), Alyssa C. Platt (Author), Elizabeth Turner (Author), Indrani Saran (Author), Joseph Kipkoech (Author), Diana Menya (Author), Wendy Prudhomme O'Meara (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: The objective was to describe the relationship between the location of care, the malaria test result, and the type of medicine consumed for the fever, and to determine whether community-based access to malaria testing reduced polypharmacy.Methods: This is a secondary analysis of a cluster...