Retrospective study on the quality of malaria diagnosis and treatment in district hospitals of Dac Lac province
- Author:
Dang -- Tu
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
malaria
- MeSH:
Malaria;
Retrospective Studies;
disease;
diagnosis;
Therapeutics;
- From:Journal of Malaria and parasite diseases Control
2003;0(1):53-59
- CountryViet Nam
- Language:Vietnamese
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Abstract:
The retrospective study on the quality of malarial diagnosis and treatment in 4 district hospitals of Dac Lac province in 2001. Quality of malarial diagnosis: 100% patients tested for malaria, the positive slide rate was 58.3%, of which 93.1% with P.falciparum infected. Cases defination of WHO to confirm malaria diagnosis was not applied. There were 4 types of malaria diagnosis: malaria 26.8%, clinical malaria 28.8%, P.falciparum malaria 37.5% and severe malaria cases 6.0%. Quality of treatment: there were 8 treatment schedules used, of which 7 schedules were used for treatment of P.falciparum infection. More than 70% of the patients received treatment schedule with artemisinin derivatives and 66.6%-80% of them received full dose of treatment. The average time of treatment course was 2.5-4.5% days
