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1. Effectiveness of community case management of severe pneumonia with oral amoxicillin in children aged 2-59 months in Matiari district, rural Pakistan: a cluster-randomised controlled trial.

Author

Soofi, Sajid, Ahmed, Sheraz, Fox, Matthew P., MacLeod, William B., Thea, Donald M., Qazi, Shamim A., and Bhutta, Zulfiqar A.

Subjects
*SOCIAL services case management, *AMOXICILLIN, *PNEUMONIA in children, *CO-trimoxazole, *CLUSTER analysis (Statistics)
Abstract

The article presents a cluster-randomised controlled trials for the efficacy of community case management of pneumonia with oral amoxicillin for children in Sindh, Pakistan. It states the case management of pneumonia undertaken by the public-sector lady health sectors (LHWs) for children in the intervention clusters with oral amoxicillin and control clusters with co-trimoxazole. Result shows the treatment failures in the intervention group is eight percent, while the control group is 13%.

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2012
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