| Title |
Reducing Stock-Outs of Life Saving Malaria Commodities Using Mobile Phone Text-Messaging: SMS for Life Study in Kenya
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| Published in |
PLOS ONE, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.1371/journal.pone.0054066 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sophie Githinji, Samwel Kigen, Dorothy Memusi, Andrew Nyandigisi, Agneta M. Mbithi, Andrew Wamari, Alex N. Muturi, George Jagoe, Jim Barrington, Robert W. Snow, Dejan Zurovac |
| Abstract |
Health facility stock-outs of life saving malaria medicines are common across Africa. Innovative ways of addressing this problem are urgently required. We evaluated whether SMS based reporting of stocks of artemether-lumefantrine (AL) and rapid diagnostic tests (RDT) can result in reduction of stock-outs at peripheral facilities in Kenya. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 16 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 19% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 13% |
| Kenya | 1 | 6% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 6% |
| Colombia | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 8 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 75% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 19% |
| Scientists | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 240 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| Tanzania, United Republic of | 2 | <1% |
| Ireland | 1 | <1% |
| Vietnam | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Ghana | 1 | <1% |
| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 229 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 59 | 25% |
| Researcher | 39 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 27 | 11% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 17 | 7% |
| Student > Bachelor | 16 | 7% |
| Other | 50 | 21% |
| Unknown | 32 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 61 | 25% |
| Computer Science | 24 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 24 | 10% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 22 | 9% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 15 | 6% |
| Other | 51 | 21% |
| Unknown | 43 | 18% |