[e-drug] Standard Treatment Guidelines (2)

["Frank Komakoma" <fkoma@yahoo.com>]

E-DRUG: Standard Treatment Guidelines (2)
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Dear Colleagues,

This is just a reminder. While we have Standard
Treatment Guidelines in various countries, it appears
to me that some Clinicians do not utilise them (or
even feel their presence or importance). This makes
the task of eradicating diseases using the  minimum
resources we have (particularly in East Africa) very
tough.

We shouldn't have different prescriptions for same
cases reported, unless there is a real need to do
so...(using a team of medical experts in a particular
hospital/set-up).

Our challenge is to countinue pouring in the heads of
Clinicians (wherever they are), the concept of having
Standard Treatment Guidelines in a particular country
or set-up.

If every Clinician will treat a patient his own way,
then definitely we are heading nowhere!

If for example a country has decided that SP should be
a first-line treatment for treating uncomplicated
malaria...let it be so! Any other choice, should be
done with great caution!

However, we who are working on the ground we are
seeing a different picture!

regards

Frank Komakoma
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fkoma@yahoo.com