Health care seeking pattern of tuberculosis patients attending an urban TB clinic in Delhi

Journal of Communicable Diseases

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 185-192

  Dhingra, V K ^a   Rajpal, S ^a   Taneja, D K ^b   Kalra, D ^b   Malhotra, R ^b  

^a New Delhi Tuberculosis Centre   (India)

^b MAULANA AZAD MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FAMILY; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; READING; SPUTUM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBERCULOSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TIME; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; FEMALE; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 1242264937     PISSN: 00195138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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