Point-of-care C-reactive protein measurement by community health workers safely reduces antimicrobial use among children with respiratory illness in rural Uganda: A stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
ClinicalTrials.gov NCT05294510. The study was reviewed and approved by the University of North Carolina Institutional Review Board (#18-2803), Mbarara University of Science and Technology Research Ethics Committee (14/03-19), and Uganda National Council on Science and Technology (HS 2631).
Authors
- Caitlin A. Cassidy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8796-4990)
- Di Hu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4759-6430)
- Edgar Mugema Mulogo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3859-453X)
- Ross M. Boyce (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9489-6324)
- B. Emmanuel
- Jonathan J. Juliano (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0591-0850)
- Emily J. Ciccone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2445-8473)
- John S. Preisser (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7869-2057)
- Lydiah Kabugho
- Georget Kibaba
- Fred Mwebembezi
Institutions
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology (UG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- PLoS Medicine
- Published
- 2024-08-19
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004416
- Citations
- 11
- Primary Topic
- Antibiotic Use and Resistance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.28
Funders
- Thrasher Research Fund
- Mbarara University of Science and Technology
- National Institutes of Health
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
- School of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill