Care seeking behavior of the TB patients who were registered in an urban government tuberculosis control in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 990-993

  Ananthakrishnan, Ramya ^a   Jeyaraju, Anita Rani ^b   Palani, G ^b   Sathiyasekaran, B W C ^b  

^a SREE BALAJI MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL   (India)

^b SRI RAMACHANDRA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Care seeking; Chennai; Delay in diagnosis; Patient delay; Private health sector; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO ILLNESS; AWARENESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INCOME; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; THERAPY DELAY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84866108255     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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