Quality of inpatient test-and-treat malaria case-management in public and private hospitals in Kano State, Nigeria

Abstract

Inpatient compliance with malaria test-and-treat guidelines varied between performance tasks, age groups, and hospital sectors. Clinicians can be confident in negative slides but should be cautious with positive results. Quality assurance of malaria diagnosis and continuous clinical and laboratory quality improvement interventions, with enhanced linkages, are needed.