Declaration on palliative care and MDR/XDR-TB

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 712-713

  Connor, Stephen ^a   Foley, Kathy ^b   Harding, Richard ^c   Jaramillo, Ernesto ^d  

^a Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS   (United States)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDITORIAL; EXTENSIVELY DRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TERMINAL CARE; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL;

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; EXTENSIVELY DRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGNOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84861145969     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.12.0267     Document Type: Editorial

References (6)

1. Espinal M, Farmer P. The Cambridge Declaration: towards clinical trials for drug-resistant tuberculosis. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2009; 13: 1-2.
2. World Health Organization. Multidrug and extensively drugr esistant TB (M/XDR-TB): 2010 global report on surveillance and response. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2010. http://www.who.int/tb/features-archive/m-xdrtb-facts/en/ index.html Accessed April 2012.
3. World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis control: WHO report 2011. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2011. http://www.who.int/tb/publications/global- report/en/index.html Accessed April 2012.
4. Kvasnovsky C L, Cegielski J P, Erasmus R, Siwisa N O, Thomas K, der Walt M L. Extensively drug-resistant TB in Eastern Cape, South Africa: high mortality in HIV-negative and HIV-positive patients. J Acquir Immune Defi c Syndr 2011; 57: 146-152.
5. Harding R, Foley K, Connor S, Jaramillo E. Embracing palliative and end-of-life care in the global response to multidrugresistant tuberculosis. Lancet Infect Dis (in press).
6. World Health Organization. WHO defi nition of palliative care. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2002. http://www.who.int/cancer/palliative/defi nition/en/ Accessed April 2012.