Factors Associated with Length of Hospital Stay among HIV Positive and HIV Negative Patients with Tuberculosis in Brazil

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Gonçalves, Maria Jacirema Ferreira ^a,b   Ferreira, Alaidistania A ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO LEÔNIDAS E MARIA DEANE   (Brazil)

^b Amazonas Federal University   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDUCATION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GENDER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LIFESTYLE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT MONITORING; RACE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMEAR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BRAZIL; DEMOGRAPHY; HIV SERONEGATIVITY; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876077474     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0060487     Document Type: Article

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