Assessing the quality of tuberculosis evaluation for children with prolonged cough presenting to routine community health care settings in rural Uganda

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Marquez, Carina ^a   Davis, J Lucian ^b   Katamba, Achilles ^c   Haguma, Priscilla ^d   Ochom, Emmanuel ^d   Ayakaka, Irene ^d   Chamie, Gabriel ^a   Dorsey, Grant ^b   Kamya, Moses R ^c   Charlebois, Edwin ^a,e   Havlir, Diane V ^a   Cattamanchi, Adithya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^d MU UCSF Research Collaboration ^*  (Uganda)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFTRIAXONE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DOXYCYCLINE; ERYTHROMYCIN; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PNEUMONIA; PRESCRIPTION; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM EXAMINATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; COUGH; DRUG EFFECTS; EVALUATION STUDY; HEALTH; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; QUALITY CONTROL; SPUTUM; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; COUGH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; QUALITY CONTROL; RURAL HEALTH; SPUTUM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA;

EID: 84932129388     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0105935     Document Type: Article

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