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 Full Title Improving quality of healthcare for Tanzanian children: Assessing the use of electronic decision support to promote evidence based medicine and rational use of drugs.

 Short Title PeDiAtrick

 Project Leader Prof. Blaise Genton

Valérie D'Acremont

 Description The goal of this project is to demonstrate improved clinical and cost effectiveness of electronic algorithms when compared to the used of paper based algorithms for managing childhood illnesses with an aim to reduce inappropriate use of antibiotics and antimalarials, and therefore improve the quality of care that is being provided to children in Tanzania. 

 Collaborators Judith Kahama-Maro            Dar es Salaam City Council's Medical Office
                                       of Health

Marc Mitchell                     Harvard School of Public Health

                                      D-Tree    
              

 Source of funding Swiss National Science Foundation 

National Institutes for Health (NIH)

 Start Date January 2010                     End Date     December 2012

     

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