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Sustainable Financial Incentives To Improve Prescription Practices For Malaria
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Global investments in controlling malaria have led to some exciting reductions in the burden of malaria. In some areas, malaria-related deaths have dropped by more than 90%. As malaria transmission declines, a greater fraction of pediatric fevers are from other causes. However, these fevers continue to be treated as malaria, often despite the availability of diagnostic testing. In a typical rural health facility in Kenya, more than 90% of febrile patients are prescribed an antimalarial when no diagnostic tests are available. Even when microscopy or rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) are available, between 50-80% of patients with a negative test are nonetheless prescribed antimalarials. Inappropriately treated fevers in children can lead to serious consequences for the patient and can accelerate the spread of drug resistance. In addition to the risk to patients, overuse of antimalarials also puts a financial strain on the government health system. Although there is considerable incentive for governments to reduce drug costs and wastage, the financial pressure is not experienced at the appropriate levels of decision-making.
This project aims to test an innovative, sustainable financial incentive designed to reduce the number of non-malarial fevers that are treated inappropriately with antimalarial drugs. The study team will test a financial incentive targeted at the health facility to determine if it improves adherence to diagnostic results and clinical protocols. Eighteen rural health facilities in Western Kenya will be enrolled and randomly allocated to one of two arms. The study team will compare the effectiveness of clinical and technical training in diagnosis of malaria alone (Arm 1) to training plus financial incentives linked to prescription practices (Arm 2) in improving diagnosis and treatment of malaria and non-malaria fevers. The practice of prescribing antimalarials to patients with a negative diagnostic will be compared between facilities with and without the incentive structure. Secondary outcomes will include sensitivity and specificity of routine microscopy at health centers, use of alternative treatments for slide negative fevers, and frequency of stock-outs of antimalarial drugs.
This project will tackle an important implementation research problem. It seeks to test solutions to the problem of poor adherence to evidence-based clinical guidelines for malaria treatment, and thereby reduce inappropriate antimalarial drug use and drug wastage. This project will be conducted in collaboration with Kenya's Division of Malaria Control and avenues to roll-out the intervention, if successful, will be actively explored.
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- Non applicabile
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Rift Valley Province
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Eldoret, Rift Valley Province, Kenya, 30100
- Moi University
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Criteri di ammissibilità
Età idonea allo studio
- Bambino
- Adulto
- Adulto più anziano
Accetta volontari sani
Sessi ammissibili allo studio
Descrizione
Inclusion Criteria:
- Health facility (level 3) in Western or Rift valley province, within the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) catchment area
- Consent from Provincial Medical Officer of Health, District Medical Officer of Health and Health facility in-charge
- Functioning laboratory including microscopic diagnosis of malaria and at least one laboratory technician.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Lack of consent from any level
- Lack of adequate laboratory infrastructure or personnel
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- Scopo principale: Ricerca sui servizi sanitari
- Assegnazione: Randomizzato
- Modello interventistico: Assegnazione parallela
Armi e interventi
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Sperimentale: Performance based incentives
Performance based incentives: The Incentive arm will receive monthly visits and external quality assurance of malaria diagnostic accuracy, identical to the comparison.
Incentive arm will also receive quarterly incentives linked to performance of the facility around six indicators of appropriate malaria case management
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Facilities enrolled in the intervention arm will receive a financial incentive that is based on their diagnosis and prescription practices for malaria over that quarter.
The intervention will last 12 months.
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Nessun intervento: Comparison
The comparison arm will receive monthly visits and monthly external quality assurance of malaria diagnostic accuracy.
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Cosa sta misurando lo studio?
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Proportion of children under 5 years of age who are treated with antimalarials following a negative malaria test
Lasso di tempo: At one year post-intervention
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The study is designed to detect a reduction in the proportion of children under 5 years of age who are prescribed antimalarials following a negative malaria diagnostic test between the intervention and comparison arms.
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At one year post-intervention
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Pubblicazioni generali
- Menya D, Platt A, Manji I, Sang E, Wafula R, Ren J, Cheruiyot O, Armstrong J, Neelon B, O'Meara WP. Using pay for performance incentives (P4P) to improve management of suspected malaria fevers in rural Kenya: a cluster randomized controlled trial. BMC Med. 2015 Oct 16;13:268. doi: 10.1186/s12916-015-0497-y.
- Menya D, Logedi J, Manji I, Armstrong J, Neelon B, O'Meara WP. An innovative pay-for-performance (P4P) strategy for improving malaria management in rural Kenya: protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial. Implement Sci. 2013 May 8;8:48. doi: 10.1186/1748-5908-8-48.
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Altri numeri di identificazione dello studio
- Pro00035154
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