Cost analysis of integrated community case management of childhood malaria diarrhea and pneumonia enhanced by mobile health technology in rural Zambia

摘要

Contributions: GB and DH conceptualized and developed the study protocol for the cluster randomized controlled trial, including the costing sub study. They were the Co-Principal Investigators of the study. GB conceptualized the manuscript, contributed to the drafting of the main costing report and interpretation of the costing data; he drafted the first version of the manuscript. BC was the Project Director for the iCCM study. He worked with GB and the team to plan and design the costing work, recruit and train data collectors and supervised the data collection. He read and provided input into the manuscript. DH, KYA, UG, KL, and WML reviewed and had significant input into the manuscript. AM led the costing data collection, analyzed the costing data and drafted the main costing report from which the manuscript was derived. He also reviewed the manuscript. All the authors approved the final version of the manuscript.