
Rainer Tan
@drrainertan
Clinical Researcher @unisanteVD & @swisstph
#MigrationHealth #DigitalHealth #GlobalHeath #ClimateAction
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31-01-2017 20:40:18
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Strong primary health care is the foundation and future of #HealthforAll. New The Lancet Global Health research shows that by investing an additional $US 200 billion a year on #PHC in low-and middle-income countries, 60 million lives could be saved by 2030: gates.ly/32aJZMo

Using rubber stamps & mobile phones to help understand & change #antibiotic prescribing behaviour in private sector primary healthcare clinics in Kenya, research in BMJ Global Health:





TZ superstar researcher Julie Makani featured in Nature Medicine


Check out this great tool developed by Ludovico Cobuccio and my colleagues at Unisanté!

Happy to see Fredros Okumu and Ifakara Health Institute Institute getting the credit they deserve for their important work! #malaria


📱 Swiss TPH & partners developed a new clinical decision support algorithm for the care of pediatric outpatients in LMIs. The process and lessons learnt were published in PLOS Digital Health 📎 journals.plos.org/digitalhealth/…



A digital algorithm in Tanzanian randomized in over 20,000 sick kids age <15 markedly reduced antibiotic prescriptions Nature Medicine Rainer Tan nature.com/articles/s4159…


Honored to have worked with Unisanté (compte inactif) Swiss TPH Ifakara Health Institute NIMR Mbeya on the DYNAMIC project. Cluster RCT published in Nature Medicine finds a clinical decision support tool reduces antibiotic prescription in >20,000 sick children in Tanzania nature.com/articles/s4159…


A study published in Nature Medicine marks an important step towards curbing bacterial antimicrobial resistance. Using ePOCT+, a digital clinical decision-making tool, reduces the prescription of antibiotics two- to three-fold. 👉 swisstph.ch/en/news/news-d…


The use of a digital decision support tool decreased antibiotic prescriptions to children by substantial margins, with no effect on clinical outcomes, in a large cluster randomized trial in Tanzania, a paper published in Nature Medicine reports. go.nature.com/3tmOwyi


Absolutely made up that our work Angkor Hospital for Children has been selected as an Editor's Choice Article in this month's Pediatric Critical Care Medicine 🙏🏾🎉 Thoughtful #OpenAccess editorial available here: shorturl.at/DRS03 Original paper available here: shorturl.at/twBRV
