Cost and cost-effectiveness of community based and health facility based directly observed treatment of tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Wandwalo, Eliud ^a,b   Robberstad, Bjarne ^a   Morkve, Odd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 27744528489     PISSN: 14787547     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-3-6     Document Type: Article

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