Treatment delay among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in pastoralist communities in Bale Zone, Southeast Ethiopia

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 5, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Hussen, Awol ^a   Biadgilign, Sibhatu ^b   Tessema, Fasil ^b   Mohammed, Shikur ^c   Deribe, Kebede ^b   Deribew, Amare ^b  

^a Bale Zonal Health Department   (Ethiopia)

^b JIMMA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^c ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Delay in treatment seeking; Delayed diagnosis; Ethiopia; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ETHIOPIA; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NEGRO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL HEALTH CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPUTUM; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TIME TO TREATMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; DELAYED DIAGNOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPUTUM; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84862504215     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-320     Document Type: Article

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