[HTML][HTML] Series: Pragmatic trials and real world evidence: Paper 2. Setting, sites, and investigator selection

SD Worsley, KO Rengerink, E Irving, S Lejeune… - Journal of clinical …, 2017 - Elsevier
This second article in the series on pragmatic trials describes the challenges in selection of
sites for pragmatic clinical trials and the impact on validity, precision, and generalizability of …

Malaria infection and severe disease risks in Africa

RS Paton, A Kamau, S Akech, A Agweyu, M Ogero… - Science, 2021 - science.org
The relationship between community prevalence of Plasmodium falciparum and the burden
of severe, life-threatening disease remains poorly defined. To examine the three most …

Minimal, negligible and negligent interventions

P Hawe - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
Many interventions are not disruptive enough of the patterns that entrench poor health and
health inequities. Ways forward may require a break with tradition to embrace system …

Improving prescribing practices with rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs): synthesis of 10 studies to explore reasons for variation in malaria RDT uptake and adherence

HED Burchett, B Leurent, F Baiden, K Baltzell… - BMJ open, 2017 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives The overuse of antimalarial drugs is widespread. Effective methods to improve
prescribing practice remain unclear. We evaluated the impact of 10 interventions that …

Efficacy and safety of fixed-dose artesunate-amodiaquine vs. artemether-lumefantrine for repeated treatment of uncomplicated malaria in Ugandan children

A Yeka, V Lameyre, K Afizi, M Fredrick, R Lukwago… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
The safety and efficacy of the two most widely used fixed-dose artemisinin-based
combination therapies (ACT), artesunate-amodiaquine (ASAQ) and artemether-lumefantrine …

[HTML][HTML] Challenging logics of complex intervention trials: community perspectives of a health care improvement intervention in rural Uganda

FM Okwaro, CIR Chandler, E Hutchinson… - Social Science & …, 2015 - Elsevier
Health systems in many African countries are failing to provide populations with access to
good quality health care. Morbidity and mortality from curable diseases such as malaria …

Taking opportunities, taking medicines: antibiotic use in rural Eastern Uganda

S Nayiga, L Denyer Willis, SG Staedke… - Medical …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The ways in which dimensions of health and healthcare intersect with economics and
politics in particular contexts requires close attention. In this article we connect concerns …

The PROCESS study: a protocol to evaluate the implementation, mechanisms of effect and context of an intervention to enhance public health centres in Tororo …

CIR Chandler, D DiLiberto, S Nayiga, L Taaka… - Implementation …, 2013 - Springer
Background Despite significant investments into health improvement programmes in
Uganda, health indicators and access to healthcare remain poor across the country. The …

The impact of an intervention to introduce malaria rapid diagnostic tests on fever case management in a high transmission setting in Uganda: A mixed-methods cluster …

CIR Chandler, EL Webb, C Maiteki-Sebuguzi… - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Background Rapid diagnostic tests for malaria (mRDTs) have been scaled-up widely across
Africa. The PRIME study evaluated an intervention aiming to improve fever case …

Differential prevalence of transporter polymorphisms in symptomatic and asymptomatic falciparum malaria infections in Uganda

S Tukwasibwe, L Mugenyi, GW Mbogo… - The Journal of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
We explored associations between Plasmodium falciparum drug resistance–mediating
polymorphisms and clinical presentations in parasitemic children enrolled in a cross …