A Cluster-randomised Trial of Interventions to Improve Antimalarial Prescribing With Malaria Tests (TACT)

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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01292707

Recruitment Status : Completed

First Posted : February 9, 2011

Last Update Posted : November 19, 2014

Sponsor:

Collaborators:

Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, Tanzania

Ministry of Health, Tanzania

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

No Study Results Posted on ClinicalTrials.gov for this Study

About Study Results Reporting on ClinicalTrials.gov

Recruitment Status :	Completed
Actual Primary Completion Date :	February 2012
Actual Study Completion Date :	April 2012

Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Leurent B, Reyburn H, Muro F, Mbakilwa H, Schellenberg D. Monitoring patient care through health facility exit interviews: an assessment of the Hawthorne effect in a trial of adherence to malaria treatment guidelines in Tanzania. BMC Infect Dis. 2016 Feb 3;16:59. doi: 10.1186/s12879-016-1362-0.

Cundill B, Mbakilwa H, Chandler CI, Mtove G, Mtei F, Willetts A, Foster E, Muro F, Mwinyishehe R, Mandike R, Olomi R, Whitty CJ, Reyburn H. Prescriber and patient-oriented behavioural interventions to improve use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests in Tanzania: facility-based cluster randomised trial. BMC Med. 2015 May 15;13:118. doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0346-z.

Chandler CI, Meta J, Ponzo C, Nasuwa F, Kessy J, Mbakilwa H, Haaland A, Reyburn H. The development of effective behaviour change interventions to support the use of malaria rapid diagnostic tests by Tanzanian clinicians. Implement Sci. 2014 Jun 26;9:83. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-9-83.

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