"They know, they agree, but they don't do" - The paradox of tuberculosis case notification by private practitioners in Alappuzha district, Kerala, India

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Philip, Sairu ^a   Isaakidis, Petros ^b   Sagili, Karuna D ^c   Meharunnisa, Asanarupillai ^a   Mrithyunjayan, Sunilkumar ^d   Kumar, Ajay M V ^c  

^a Govt TD Medical College   (India)

^b MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Switzerland)

^c INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^d Directorate of Health Services   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; AGED; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MIDDLE AGED; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929378135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0123286     Document Type: Article

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