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Estimating the Global Health Impact of Improved Diagnostic Tools for the Developing World

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By: Deborah C. Hay Burgess, Jeffrey Wasserman, Carol A. Dahl, Federico Girosi, Stuart S. Olmsted, Emmett B. Keeler, Yee-Wei Lim, Julia E. Aledort, Maria E. Rafael, Karen A. Ricci, Rob Boer, Lee H. Hilborne, Kathryn Pitkin Derose, Molly Shea, Christopher Beighley, Mark Steinhoff, Douglas Holtzman, Harry Campbell, Robert Black, Kim Mulholland, Allen Ronald, Sylive M. Le Blancq, Renee Ridzon, Alan Landay, Jeff Safrit, Rosanna W. Peeling, Nicholas Hellmann, Peter Mwaba, King Holmes, Cathy Wilfert, Phillip I. Tarr, Carl Mason, Mark Miller, James Hughes, Lorenz von Seidlein, Jan M. Agosti, Richard L. Guerrant, Terrie Taylor, Alan Magill, Richard Allan, Mark D. Perkins, Peter Small, Christy Hanson, Steven Reed, Jane Cunningham, Christopher Dye, Peter Vickerman, Mickey Urdea, Laura A. Penny, Maria Y. Giovanni, Peter Kaspar, Andrew Shepherd, Penny Wilson, Steven Buchsbaum, Gerry Moeller

This research brief summarizes research assessing how higher-quality and more-accessible clinical diagnostic tests could improve health outcomes in the developing world for a number of common diseases.

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