Linkage to Care and Treatment for TB and HIV among People Newly Diagnosed with TB or HIV-Associated TB at a Large, Inner City South African Hospital

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Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Voss De Lima, Yara ^a   Evans, Denise ^b   Page Shipp, Liesl ^c   Barnard, Antonia ^d   Sanne, Ian ^a   Menezes, Colin N ^b   van Rie, Annelies ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c RIGHT TO CARE   (South Africa)

^d Gauteng Department of Health and Social Development   (South Africa)

^e IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; CD4 ANTIGEN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; REGISTER; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SOUTH AFRICA; TELEPHONE; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84872433993     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049140     Document Type: Article

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