Prospective evaluation of a complex public health intervention: Lessons from an initial and follow-up cross-sectional survey of the tuberculosis strain typing service in England

BMC Public Health

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Mears, Jessica ^a   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^a,b   Crisp, Debbie ^c   Maguire, Helen ^b,d   Innes, John A ^e   Lilley, Mike ^b   Lord, Joanne ^f   Cohen, Ted ^g,h   Borgdorff, Martien W ^i,j   Vynnycky, Emilia ^b,k   McHugh, Timothy D ^a   Sonnenberg, Pam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c GEORGE ELIOT HOSPITAL NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND CONTROL ECDC   (Sweden)

^e BIRMINGHAM HEARTLANDS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

ⁱ DEPARTMENT OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Netherlands)

^j UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^k LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Complex intervention; MIRU VNTR; Service evaluation; Strain typing; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENETICS; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; TUBERCULOSIS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENGLAND; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MYCOBACTERIUM; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUESTIONNAIRES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84907976241     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1023     Document Type: Review

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