Programmatic approaches to screening for active tuberculosis

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1248-1256

  Creswell, J ^b   Ottmani, S E ^a   Wei, D ^a   Sahu, S ^b   Lonnroth K ^a   Uplekar, Mukund W ^a,b  

^a Global TB Programme   (Switzerland)

^b WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Active case finding; Programmatic approaches; TB screening

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; CAMBODIA; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING EQUIPMENT; DISEASE DURATION; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MEDICAL ETHICS; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SPUTUM SMEAR; STRATEGIC PLANNING; SWAZILAND; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CONTACT TRACING; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; RISK FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84884649548     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.13.0199     Document Type: Review

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