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. 2020 Oct 28;2020(10):CD012907. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012907.pub2

WHO 2013.

Study characteristics
Methods Secondary objective: case study describing program implementation
Participants Health facility workers
Context: Tanzania, Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo
Interventions SMS for Life sent weekly SMS to health facilities requesting stock information. Facility‐based health workers used mobile phones to send information on relevant stocks using SMS messages, on a weekly basis. These data were made available as summary reports to the District Medical Officer and District Pharmacist, who could make decision about transfer of commodities.
Outcomes N/A
Notes The program described here is the same intervention as the one described by Barrington 2010; Githinji 2013; Mikkelsen‐Lopez 2014, with differences in the products about which stock data were reported.