Health in Action Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi
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1 Baobab Health Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 3 Maame Akua, Area 43, Lilongwe, Malawi, 4 Department for HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi, 5 International Training and Education Center for Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 6 Management Sciences for Health, Lilongwe, Malawi, 7 Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Malawi, Blantyre, Malawi, 8 Operational Research Unit, Medecins sans Frontieres, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 9 International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France, 10 London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
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Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi
1 Baobab Health Trust, Lilongwe, Malawi, 2 Department of Biomedical Informatics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, 3 Maame Akua, Area 43, Lilongwe, Malawi, 4 Department for HIV and AIDS, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi, 5 International Training and Education Center for Health, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, 6 Management Sciences f...
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