Interactive training halves malaria overdiagnosis, prevents wastage of drugs
Friday, April 25, 2014 - 17:30
in Health & Medicine
Interactive training programs for health workers could halve the overdiagnosis of malaria and prevent wastage of valuable drugs, new research concludes. The African study compared the use of RDTs when packaged with either a basic or a comprehensive training program for clinicians. Their results showed that those undertaking the comprehensive program were much less likely to overuse antimalarials.