Surveillance and screening of American cutaneous leishmaniasis by Colombian primary health care workers using a clinical prediction rule

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 405-410

  Rojas, Carlos A ^a   Weigle, Kristen A ^b   Barrera, Lena ^a   Collazos, Constanza ^c  

^a CENTRO INTERNACIONAL DE ENTRENAMIENTO E INVESTIGACIONES MÉDICAS CIDEIM   (Colombia)

^b University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^c CIMDER   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Colombia; Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Prediction rule; Primary health workers; Screening; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COLOMBIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL INFORMATION; NURSE PRACTITIONER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCORING SYSTEM; SCREENING TEST; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; VOLUNTEER; HEALTH; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

PROTOZOA;

COLOMBIA; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MASS SCREENING; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RURAL HEALTH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0036651799     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90375-5     Document Type: Article

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