Delay in the diagnosis of tuberculosis in Nepal

BMC Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Basnet, Rajendra ^a,b   Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund ^a   Enarson, Don ^c   Malla, Pushpa ^d   Mørkve, Odd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b International Nepal Fellowship   (Nepal)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^d National Tuberculosis Centre   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEPAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SPUTUM SMEAR; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TIME; AGED; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEPAL; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68549133375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-9-236     Document Type: Article

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