Tuberculosis control in Shinjuku Ward, Tokyo - Promoting the DOTS program and its outcome

Kekkaku

Volumn 83, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 611-620

  Kaguraoka, Sumi ^a   Ohmori, Masako ^b   Takao, Yoshiko ^c   Yamada, Mari ^a   Muroi, Masako ^c   Nagamine, Michiko ^d   Fukazawa, Keiji ^e   Nagai, Megumi ^f   Wada, Masako ^g   Hoshino, Hitoshi ^b   Yoshiyama, Takashi ^b   Maeda, Hideo ^h   Ishikawa, Nobukatsu ^b  

^a Nishishiniuku Public Health Centre Tokyo   (Japan)

^b RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF TUBERCULOSIS   (Japan)

^c Shinjuku ku Public Health Centre   (Japan)

^d Tokyo Metropolitan Government Tokyo Metropolitan Hospitals Association Patient Safety Management   (Japan)

^e Kita ku Public Health Center   (Japan)

^f Toshima ku Ikebukuro Public Health Centre   (Japan)

^g Chemothrapy Institute

^h Public Health Centre   (Japan)

Author keywords

DOTS; Foreigners; Homeless; Public health nurse; Shinjuku; Treatment outcome; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTACT EXAMINATION; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK; STATISTICS; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS;

COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CONTACT TRACING; DIRECTLY OBSERVED THERAPY; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RECURRENCE; RISK; TIME FACTORS; TOKYO; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 58149144253     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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