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Effectiveness of strategies to improve health-care provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries: a systematic review by Rowe, Alexander K, Rowe, Samantha Y, Peters, David H, Holloway, Kathleen A, Chalker, John, Ross-Degnan, Dennis

“…Inadequate health-care provider performance is a major challenge to the delivery of high-quality health care in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs)…”
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Achieving child survival goals: potential contribution of community health workers by Haines, Andy, Prof, Sanders, David, MRCP, Lehmann, Uta, PhD, Rowe, Alexander K, MD, Lawn, Joy E, MRCP, Jan, Steve, PhD, Walker, Damian G, PhD, Bhutta, Zulfiqar, PhD

“…Summary There is renewed interest in the potential contribution of community health workers to child survival. Community health workers can undertake various…”
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The effect of mobile phone text-message reminders on Kenyan health workers' adherence to malaria treatment guidelines: a cluster randomised trial by Zurovac, Dejan, Dr, Sudoi, Raymond K, BSc, Akhwale, Willis S, PhD, Ndiritu, Moses, MD, Hamer, Davidson H, MD, Rowe, Alexander K, MD, Snow, Robert W, Prof

“…Summary Background Health workers' malaria case-management practices often differ from national guidelines. We assessed whether text-message reminders sent to…”
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The effectiveness of the quality improvement collaborative strategy in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Garcia-Elorrio, Ezequiel, Rowe, Samantha Y, Teijeiro, Maria E, Ciapponi, Agustín, Rowe, Alexander K

“…Quality improvement collaboratives (QICs) have been used to improve health care for decades. Evidence on QIC effectiveness has been reported, but systematic…”
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A systematic review of the effectiveness of strategies to improve health care provider performance in low- and middle-income countries: Methods and descriptive results by Rowe, Samantha Y, Peters, David H, Holloway, Kathleen A, Chalker, John, Ross-Degnan, Dennis, Rowe, Alexander K

“…Health care provider (HCP) performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) is often inadequate. The Health Care Provider Performance Review (HCPPR) is…”
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The effectiveness of pay-for-performance contracts with non-governmental organizations in Afghanistan - results of a controlled interrupted time series analysis by Samad, Diwa, Hamid, Bashir, Sayed, Ghulam Dastagir, Liu, Yueming, Zeng, Wu, Rowe, Alexander K, Loevinsohn, Benjamin

“…In many contexts, including fragile settings like Afghanistan, the coverage of basic health services is low. To address these challenges there has been…”
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How can we achieve and maintain high-quality performance of health workers in low-resource settings? by Rowe, Alexander K, de Savigny, Don, Lanata, Claudio F, Victora, Cesar G

“…In low and middle income countries, health workers are essential for the delivery of health interventions. However, inadequate health-worker performance is a…”
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Opening the 'black box' of collaborative improvement: a qualitative evaluation of a pilot intervention to improve quality of malaria surveillance data in public health centres in Uganda by Hutchinson, Eleanor, Nayiga, Susan, Nabirye, Christine, Taaka, Lilian, Westercamp, Nelli, Rowe, Alexander K, Staedke, Sarah G

“…Demand for high-quality surveillance data for malaria, and other diseases, is greater than ever before. In Uganda, the primary source of malaria surveillance…”
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The effect of mobile phone text message reminders on health workers' adherence to case management guidelines for malaria and other diseases in Malawi: lessons from qualitative data from a cluster-randomized trial by Kaunda-Khangamwa, Blessings N, Steinhardt, Laura C, Rowe, Alexander K, Gumbo, Austin, Moyo, Dubulao, Nsona, Humphreys, Troell, Peter, Zurovac, Dejan, Mathanga, Don

“…Mobile health (mHealth), which uses technology such as mobile phones to improve patient health and health care delivery, is increasingly being tested as an…”
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Effectiveness of in-service training plus the collaborative improvement strategy on the quality of routine malaria surveillance data: results of a pilot study in Kayunga District, Uganda by Westercamp, Nelli, Staedke, Sarah G, Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Catherine, Ndyabakira, Alex, Okiring, John Michael, Kigozi, Simon P, Dorsey, Grant, Broughton, Edward, Hutchinson, Eleanor, Massoud, M Rashad, Rowe, Alexander K

“…Surveillance data are essential for malaria control, but quality is often poor. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the novel combination…”
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The effectiveness of supervision strategies to improve health care provider practices in low- and middle-income countries: secondary analysis of a systematic review by Rowe, Samantha Y, Ross-Degnan, Dennis, Peters, David H, Holloway, Kathleen A, Rowe, Alexander K

“…Although supervision is a ubiquitous approach to support health programs and improve health care provider (HCP) performance in low- and middle-income countries…”
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The effectiveness of training strategies to improve healthcare provider practices in low-income and middle-income countries by Rowe, Alexander K, Rowe, Samantha Y, Peters, David H, Holloway, Kathleen A, Ross-Degnan, Dennis

“…IntroductionIn low/middle-income countries (LMICs), training is often used to improve healthcare provider (HCP) performance. However, important questions…”
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The burden of malaria mortality among African children in the year 2000 by Rowe, Alexander K, Rowe, Samantha Y, Snow, Robert W, Korenromp, Eline L, Schellenberg, Joanna RM Armstrong, Stein, Claudia, Nahlen, Bernard L, Bryce, Jennifer, Black, Robert E, Steketee, Richard W

“…Background Although malaria is a leading cause of child deaths, few well-documented estimates of its direct and indirect burden exist. Our objective was to…”
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Caution is required when using health facility-based data to evaluate the health impact of malaria control efforts in Africa by Rowe, Alexander K, Kachur, S Patrick, Yoon, Steven S, Lynch, Matthew, Slutsker, Laurence, Steketee, Richard W

“…The global health community is interested in the health impact of the billions of dollars invested to fight malaria in Africa. A recent publication used trends…”
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Quality of malaria case management at outpatient health facilities in Angola by Rowe, Alexander K, de León, Gabriel F Ponce, Mihigo, Jules, Santelli, Ana Carolina F S, Miller, Nathan P, Van-Dúnem, Pedro

“…Angola's malaria case-management policy recommends treatment with artemether-lumefantrine (AL). In 2006, AL implementation began in Huambo Province, which…”
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Improving health worker performance: an ongoing challenge for meeting the sustainable development goals by Rowe, Alexander K, Labadie, Guilhem, Jackson, Debra, Vivas-Torrealba, Claudia, Simon, Jonathon

“…Improving health worker performance is crucial to accelerating progress in helping children to survive and thrive, say Alexander K Rowe and colleagues…”
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Assessing the Health Impact of Malaria Control Interventions in the MDG/Sustainable Development Goal Era: A New Generation of Impact Evaluations by Rowe, Alexander K

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Why population attributable fractions can sum to more than one by Rowe, Alexander K., Powell, Kenneth E., Flanders, W.Dana

“…Population attributable fractions (PAFs) are useful for estimating the proportion of disease cases that could be prevented if risk factors were reduced or…”
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Evaluating health worker performance in Benin using the simulated client method with real children by Rowe, Alexander K, Onikpo, Faustin, Lama, Marcel, Deming, Michael S

“…The simulated client (SC) method for evaluating health worker performance utilizes surveyors who pose as patients to make surreptitious observations during…”
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Gaps in policy-relevant information on burden of disease in children: a systematic review by Rudan, Igor, Lawn, Joy, Cousens, Simon, Rowe, Alexander K, Boschi-Pinto, Cynthia, Tomašković, Lana, Mendoza, Walter, Lanata, Claudio F, Roca-Feltrer, Arantxa, Carneiro, Ilona, Schellenberg, Joanna A, Polašek, Ozren, Weber, Martin, Bryce, Jennifer, Morris, Saul S, Black, Robert E, Campbell, Harry

“…Valid information about cause-specific child mortality and morbidity is an essential foundation for national and international health policy. We undertook a…”
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