Patient and health care system delays in the start of tuberculosis treatment in Norway

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Farah, Mohamed Guled ^a,b   Rygh, Jens Henning ^a,b   Steen, Tore W ^c   Selmer, Randi ^a   Heldal, Einar ^a   Bjune, Gunnar ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c Health and Welfare Agency   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BIRTHPLACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORWAY; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORWAY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 33645787813     PISSN: 14712334     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2334-6-33     Document Type: Article

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