Evaluating the impact of decentralising tuberculosis microscopy services to rural township hospitals in gansu province, china

BMC Public Health

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Wei, Xiaolin ^a   Zou, Guanyang ^b,c   Zhang, Hui ^d   Li, Renzhong ^d   Walley, John D ^b   Jiang, Shiwen ^d   Yin, Jia ^b,c   Jin, Shuigao ^e   Li, You ^d   Sun, Qiang ^f   Newell, James N ^b   Griffiths, Sian ^a   Wang, Lixia ^d  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c China Centre for Disease Control ^*  (China)

^d National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^e State Key Laboratory for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control The Department of Viral Encephal   (China)

^f SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIAL CLASS; TUBERCULOSIS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

CHINA; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL CLASS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 79851516667     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-11-103     Document Type: Article

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