Universal Versus Conditional Third Day Follow-Up Visit for Children With Nonsevere Unclassified Fever at the Community Level in Ethiopia: Protocol for a Cluster Randomized Noninferiority Trial

Karin Källander   ^{1, 2} , MSc, PhD ;   Tobias Alfven   ^{2, 3} , MD, PhD ;   Ayalkibet Abebe Workineh   ⁴ , BSc, MPH ;   Abreham Hailemariam,   ⁴ , BSc, MSc ;   Max Petzold   ^{5, 6} , MSc, PhD ;   Dawit Getachew   ⁴ , MPH, MD ;   Lawrence Barat   ⁷ , MPH, MD ;   Laura C Steinhardt   ⁸ , MPH, PhD ;   Julie R Gutman   ⁸ , MSc, MD

¹ Malaria Consortium, London, United Kingdom

² Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

³ Sachs’ Children and Youth Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

⁴ Malaria Consortium Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

⁵ Health Metrics, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

⁶ School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

⁷ US President's Malaria Initiative, United States Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, United States

⁸ Malaria Branch, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, United States