Variations of care quality for infectious pulmonary tuberculosis in Taiwan: A population based cohort study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Chung, Wei Sheng ^a,b   Chang, Ray E ^b,d   Guo, How Ran ^c  

^a HUALIEN ARMED FORCES GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^d NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE REGISTRY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; KRUSKAL WALLIS TEST; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADOLESCENT; AGE; AGED; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; MEDICAL AUDIT; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONOLOGY; SPUTUM; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, SPECIAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY DISEASE (SPECIALTY); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPUTUM; TAIWAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 34447109502     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-107     Document Type: Article

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