Barriers to adherence with tuberculosis contact investigation in six provinces of Vietnam: A nested case-control study

BMC Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fox, Gregory James ^a,b   Loan, Le Phuong ^a   Nhung, Nguyen Viet ^c   Loi, Nguyen Thi ^a   Sy, Dinh Ngoc ^c   Britton, Warwick John ^a,b   Marks, Guy Barrington ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c National Lung Hospital   (Viet Nam)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Contact tracing; Infectious disease contact tracing; Mycobacterium tuberculosis; Public health; Pulmonary; Screening; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH BELIEF; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; VIET NAM; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONTACT EXAMINATION; FAMILY SIZE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREVALENCE; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONTACT TRACING; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PREVALENCE; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIETNAM; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84926382477     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712334     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12879-015-0816-0     Document Type: Article

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