Do rapid diagnostic tests improve overall quality of care?

Affiliations

¹ Department of Women's and Children's Health, International Maternal and Child Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
² Department of Paediatrics, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden.
³ Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi.
⁴ United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY, USA.

Comment

Emily W Johansson et al. BMJ. 2017.

. 2017 May 11:357:j2290.

doi: 10.1136/bmj.j2290.

¹ Department of Women's and Children's Health, International Maternal and Child Health, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
² Department of Paediatrics, Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden.
³ Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) Unit, Lilongwe, Malawi.
⁴ United Nations Children's Fund, New York, NY, USA.

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Competing interests: None declared.

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