Tuberculosis treatment discontinuation and symptom persistence: An observational study of Bihar, India's public care system covering >100,000,000 inhabitants

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Babiarz, Kimberly S ^a   Suen, Sze Chuan ^b   Goldhaber Fiebert, Jeremy D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

Author keywords

India; Symptom persistence; Treatment default; Treatment discontinuation; Treatment duration; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; COMPLICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TUBERCULOSIS;

ADULT; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84902011401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-418     Document Type: Review

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