Piloting the use of personal digital assistants for tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus surveillance, Kenya, 2007

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1140-1146

  Auld, A F ^a   Wambua, N ^b   Onyango, J ^b   Marston, B ^a   Namulanda, G ^a   Ackers, M ^b   Oluoch, T ^b   Karisa, A ^b   Hightower, A ^b   Shiraishi, R W ^a   Nakashima, A ^a   Sitienei, J ^c  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b Global AIDS Program   (Kenya)

^c MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Kenya; Personal digital assistants; TB HIV surveillance

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE;

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; EVALUATION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; KENYA; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANT; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; TUBERCULOSIS;

AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COMPUTERS, HANDHELD; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; KENYA; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PILOT PROJECTS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; REGISTRIES; TRIMETHOPRIM-SULFAMETHOXAZOLE COMBINATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 77956595995     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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