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| Alexander K RoweSummaryAffiliation: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Country: USA Publications
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Health worker perceptions of how being observed influences their practices during consultations with ill childrenAlexander K Rowe
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Trop Doct 32:166-7. 2002- Predictors of treatment error for children with uncomplicated malaria seen as outpatients in Blantyre district, MalawiDawn M Osterholt
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341-3724, USA
Trop Med Int Health 11:1147-56. 2006..These results support integration of guidelines for multiple conditions. Interventions should be evaluated for unintended negative effects on overall quality of care... - Does shortening the training on Integrated Management of Childhood Illness guidelines reduce its effectiveness? A systematic reviewAlexander K Rowe
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop F22, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Health Policy Plan 27:179-93. 2012..As sizable performance gaps often existed after IMCI training, countries should consider implementing other interventions to support health workers after training, regardless of training duration... - Antimicrobial resistance of nasopharyngeal isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae from children in the Central African RepublicA K Rowe
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Pediatr Infect Dis J 19:438-44. 2000..Secondary purposes of the survey were to identify risk factors associated with carriage of a resistant isolate and to compare the survey methods of including only children with pneumonia vs. including all ill children... - The burden of malaria mortality among African children in the year 2000Alexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Int J Epidemiol 35:691-704. 2006..Our objective was to estimate the number of deaths directly attributable to malaria among children <5 years old in sub-Saharan Africa for the year 2000... - Analysis of deaths with an unknown cause in epidemiologic analyses of mortality burdenAlexander K Rowe
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Trop Med Int Health 11:540-50. 2006..To describe options for analysing deaths with an unknown cause, which often occur in community-based studies that are used to estimate disease-specific mortality burden and trends in low-income countries... - Viewpoint: evaluating the impact of malaria control efforts on mortality in sub-Saharan AfricaAlexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
Trop Med Int Health 12:1524-39. 2007.... - Predictions of the impact of malaria control efforts on all-cause child mortality in sub-Saharan AfricaAlexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 77:48-55. 2007..Although existing models have important limitations, they could be improved by incorporating empirical results during scale-up of multiple interventions and by adding precision estimates and sensitivity analyses... - A multifaceted intervention to improve health worker adherence to integrated management of childhood illness guidelines in BeninAlexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop F22, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Am J Public Health 99:837-46. 2009.... - Potential of integrated continuous surveys and quality management to support monitoring, evaluation, and the scale-up of health interventions in developing countriesAlexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:971-9. 2009..Implementing and evaluating I-Q in a low-income country would provide critical information on the value of this approach... - Caution is required when using health facility-based data to evaluate the health impact of malaria control efforts in AfricaAlexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Malar J 8:209. 2009..In conclusion, evaluations of malaria burden reduction using facility-based data could be very helpful, but those data should be collected, analysed, and interpreted with care, transparency, and a full recognition of their limitations... - The rise and fall of supervision in a project designed to strengthen supervision of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness in BeninAlexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Health Policy Plan 25:125-34. 2010..However, remarkably little research has explored in depth why supervision is so challenging... - Quality of malaria case management at outpatient health facilities in AngolaAlexander K Rowe
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, USA
Malar J 8:275. 2009..Implementation was complicated by a policy that was sometimes ambiguous... - How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings?Alexander K Rowe
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop F22, 4770 Buford Highway, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Lancet 366:1026-35. 2005..Furthermore, we recommend that ministries of health and international organisations should actively help translate research findings into action to improve health-worker performance, and thereby improve health... - Impact of a malaria-control project in benin that included the integrated management of childhood illness strategyAlexander K Rowe
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Am J Public Health 101:2333-41. 2011..To estimate the impact of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) strategy on early-childhood mortality, we evaluated a malaria-control project in Benin that implemented IMCI and promoted insecticide-treated nets (ITNs)... - Predictors of correct treatment of children with fever seen at outpatient health facilities in the Central African RepublicA K Rowe
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA
Am J Epidemiol 151:1029-35. 2000..For child health programs to improve, targeted studies are needed to understand which factors, alone or in combination, improve health care worker performance... - Management of childhood illness at health facilities in Benin: problems and their causesA K Rowe
International Child Survival and Emerging Infections Program Support Activity, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway NE, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1625-35. 2001..To prepare for the implementation of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) in Benin, we studied the management of ill children younger than 5 years at outpatient health facilities... - Why population attributable fractions can sum to more than oneAlexander K Rowe
Division of Adult and Community Health, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3724, USA
Am J Prev Med 26:243-9. 2004..For diseases with multiple risk factors, PAFs of individual risk factors can sum to more than 1, a result suggesting the impossible situation in which more than 100% of cases are preventable... - Risk and protective factors for two types of error in the treatment of children with fever at outpatient health facilities in BeninAlexander K Rowe
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Int J Epidemiol 32:296-303. 2003..In developing countries, health workers often do not follow clinical practice guidelines. However, few studies have examined why different types of errors occur... - Assessing the validity of health facility-based data on insecticide-treated bednet possession and use: comparison of data collected via health facility and household surveys--Lindi region and Rufiji district, Tanzania, 2005Jacek Skarbinski
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Trop Med Int Health 13:396-405. 2008..Overestimating insecticide-treated bednet use could lead to inappropriate public health actions and missed opportunities for achieving local and global public health goals... - Effect of malaria rapid diagnostic tests on the management of uncomplicated malaria with artemether-lumefantrine in Kenya: a cluster randomized trialJacek Skarbinski
Malaria Branch, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3724, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 80:919-26. 2009..30). RDTs could potentially improve malaria case management, but we urgently need to develop more effective strategies for implementing guidelines before large scale implementation... - Care takers' recall of Integrated Management of Childhood Illness counselling messages in BeninJane M Kelly
Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30341 3724, USA
Trop Doct 37:75-9. 2007..9% one day later. These results support IMCI's recommendation that health workers should verify caretakers' comprehension by asking caretakers to repeat counselling messages during consultations... - Malaria surveillance--United States, 2002Snehal Shah
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Epidemiology Program Office, CDC, USA
MMWR Surveill Summ 53:21-34. 2004..Recommendations concerning malaria prevention can be obtained from CDC by calling the Malaria Hotline at 770-488-7788 or by accessing CDC's Internet site at http://www.cdc.gov/travel... - Distribution of free untreated bednets bundled with insecticide via an integrated child health campaign in Lindi Region, Tanzania: lessons for future campaignsJacek Skarbinski
Malaria Branch, Division of Parasitic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30341 3724, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 76:1100-6. 2007..However, our study found that bednets were rarely treated; thus, future campaigns should provide factory-treated long-lasting ITNs. Low ITN use underscores the need for further efforts to increase use after campaigns... - Practical methods for public health practitionersAlexander K Rowe
Am J Prev Med 26:252-3. 2004 - Design effects and intraclass correlation coefficients from a health facility cluster survey in BeninAlexander K Rowe
Int J Qual Health Care 14:521-3. 2002 - Effect of the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness strategy on health care quality in MoroccoJoseph F Naimoli
Department of Health, Nutrition, Population, The World Bank, Washington, DC 20433, USA
Int J Qual Health Care 18:134-44. 2006.... - Treatment of paediatric malaria during a period of drug transition to artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia: cross sectional studyDejan Zurovac
Malaria Public Health and Epidemiology Group, Centre for Geographic Medicine, KEMRI Wellcome Trust Collaborative Programme, PO Box 43640, 00100 GPO, Nairobi, Kenya
BMJ 331:734. 2005..To evaluate treatment practices for uncomplicated malaria after the policy change from chloroquine to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine and to artemether-lumefantrine in Zambia... - Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic reviewIgor Rudan
Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Edinburgh, UK
Lancet 365:2031-40. 2005.... - Should verbal autopsy results for malaria be adjusted to improve validity?Alexander K Rowe
Int J Epidemiol 34:712-3. 2005 - Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workersAndy Haines
Director s office, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK
Lancet 369:2121-31. 2007..The introduction of large-scale programmes for community health workers requires evaluation to document the impact on child survival and cost effectiveness and to elucidate factors associated with success and sustainability... - Volume and outcomeAlexander K Rowe
N Engl J Med 347:693-6; author reply 693-6. 2002