Cost and cost-effectiveness of treating smear-positive tuberculosis by health extension workers in Ethiopia: An ancillary cost-effectiveness analysis of community randomized trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Datiko, Daniel G ^a,b   Lindtjørn, Bernt ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Southern Nations   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CAREGIVER; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INVESTMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SMEAR; STANDARD; TRAINING; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CAREGIVERS; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77949521077     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0009158     Document Type: Article

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