Investigation on "patient's delay" in TB detection

Kekkaku

Volumn 84, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 523-529

  Matsumoto, Kenji ^a   Fukunaga, Yoshie ^b   Monbayashi, Junko ^b   Arima, Kazuyo ^b   Shimouchi, Akira ^b  

^a Health and Welfare Center of Nishinari Ward   (Japan)

^b Osaka City Public Health Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

Family doctor; Patient's delay; Serious illness; Smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SMOKING; TIME; TUBERCULOSIS;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENTS; SMOKING; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 70349318083     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (2)

1. Mpungu SK, Karamagi C, Mayanja KH: Patient and health service delay in pulmonary tuberculosis patients attending a referral hospital: a cross-sectional study. BMC Public Health. 2005; 5: 122.
2. Sarmiento K, Hirsch-Moverman Y, Colson PW, et al. : Help-seeking behavior of marginalized groups: a study of TB patients in Harlem, New York. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2006; 10: 1140-1145. (Pubitemid 44519353)