Health laboratories in the Tanga region of Tanzania: The quality of diagnostic services for malaria and other communicable diseases

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 441-453

  Ishengoma, D R S ^a   Rwegoshora, R T ^a   Mdira, K Y ^a   Kamugisha, M L ^a   Anga, E O ^b   Bygbjerg, I C ^c   Ronn A M ^c   Magesa, S M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

^b Bombo Regional Hospital   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIARRHEA; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART DISEASE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; LABORATORY; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; MALARIA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PNEUMONIA; PUS; QUALITY CONTROL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TANZANIA; TUBERCULOSIS; URINALYSIS;

CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALARIA; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TANZANIA;

EID: 67650468679     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485909X451726     Document Type: Article

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