Using Touchscreen Electronic Medical Record Systems to Support and Monitor National Scale-Up of Antiretroviral Therapy in Malawi
Open Access
- 10 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 7 (8) , e1000319
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1000319
Abstract
Gerry Douglas and colleagues describe the rationale and their experience with scaling up electronic health records in six antiretroviral treatment sites in Malawi.Keywords
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