Management of pulmonary tuberculosis in Tajikistan: Which factors determine hospitalization?

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1364-1371

  Thierfelder, Clara ^a   Makowiecka, Krystyna ^b   Vinichenko, Tatyana ^c   Ayé, Raffel ^d   Edwards, Phil ^b   Wyss, Kaspar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c Project HOPE/Tajikistan   (Tajikistan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Hospitalization; Predictors; Tajikistan; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

HEALTH SERVICES; REGRESSION; REGULATORY APPROACH; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; RANDOM SAMPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPUTUM ANALYSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; TAJIKISTAN; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BED OCCUPANCY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PLANNING GUIDELINES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETREATMENT; SEASONS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPUTUM; TAJIKISTAN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

ASIA; EURASIA; TAJIKISTAN; WEST ASIA;

EID: 56049087769     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: 13653156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2008.02149.x     Document Type: Article

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