Users' and health service providers' perception on quality of laboratory malaria diagnosis in Tanzania

Malaria Journal

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Derua, Yahya A ^a   Ishengoma, Deus R S ^a   Tenu, Filemoni ^a   Massaga, Julius J ^a   Mboera, Leonard E G ^a   Magesa, Stephen M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANOREXIA; ARTHRALGIA; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD SMEAR; COLD; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIARRHEA; FEVER; HEADACHE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; JOB SATISFACTION; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY PERSONNEL; LEG PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAISE; MALARIA; MEDICAL CARE; MICROSCOPY; PAIN; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRENATAL CARE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TANZANIA; THORAX PAIN; VOMITING; WEAKNESS; WORK ENVIRONMENT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSIS, MEASUREMENT AND ANALYSIS; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MANPOWER; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; STANDARD; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CLINICAL LABORATORY TECHNIQUES; DIAGNOSTIC SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JOB SATISFACTION; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TANZANIA;

EID: 79953656227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14752875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1475-2875-10-78     Document Type: Article

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