China tuberculosis policy at crucial crossroads: Comparing the practice of different hospital and tuberculosis control collaboration models using survey data

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Wei, Xiaolin ^a   Zou, Guanyang ^b   Walley, John ^b   Yin, Jia ^a   Lonnroth, Knut ^c   Uplekar, Mukund ^c   Wang, Weibing ^d   Sun, Qiang ^e  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; CHINA; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REGISTER; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; TUBERCULOSIS; ADULT; COOPERATION; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; CHINA; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84897975069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0090596     Document Type: Article

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