The magnitude and factors associated with delays in management of smear positive tuberculosis in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Mfinanga, Sayoki G ^a   Mutayoba, Beatrice K ^a   Kahwa, Amos ^a   Kimaro, Godfather ^a   Mtandu, Rugola ^a   Ngadaya, Esther ^a   Egwaga, Said ^b   Kitua, Andrew Y ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b Elderly and Children   (Tanzania)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; KNOWLEDGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NIGHT SWEAT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYMPTOM; TANZANIA; THERAPY DELAY; THORAX PAIN; TUBERCULOSIS; UNEMPLOYMENT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ADOLESCENT; AMBULATORY CARE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DRUG COMBINATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; TIME;

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; TANZANIA; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 49649088026     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-158     Document Type: Article

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