Association between health systems performance and treatment outcomes in patients co-infected with MDR-TB and HIV in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa: Implications for TB programmes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Loveday, Marian ^a   Padayatchi, Nesri ^b   Wallengren, Kristina ^c   Roberts, Jacquelin ^d   Brust, James C M ^e   Ngozo, Jacqueline ^f   Master, Iqbal ^f   Voce, Anna ^g  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^c KwaZulu Natal Research Institute for Tuberculosis and HIV   (South Africa)

^d CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^e ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f KwaZulu Natal Department of Health   (South Africa)

^g UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE STUDY; CLINICAL HANDOVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SYSTEM INTEGRATION; HEALTH SYSTEMS PERFORMANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVIEW; MIXED INFECTION; MORTALITY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARTICIPANT OBSERVATION; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; SYSTEMATIC TEXT CONDENSATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIVIRAL RESISTANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COINFECTION; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIV INFECTIONS; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; POLITICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESIDENTIAL CARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CATCHMENT AREA (HEALTH); COINFECTION; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE; DRUG RESISTANCE, VIRAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POLITICS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84899582010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094016     Document Type: Article

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