Challenges from tuberculosis diagnosis to care in community-based active case finding among the urban poor in Cambodia: A mixed-methods study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Lorent, Natalie ^a,b,d   Choun, Kimcheng ^a   Malhotra, Shelly ^a   Koeut, Pichenda ^a   Thai, Sopheak ^a   Khun, Kim Eam ^a   Colebunders, Robert ^b,c   Lynen, Lut ^b  

^a Infectious Diseases Department Sihanouk Hospital Center of HOPE ^*  (Cambodia)

^b INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SAFETY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOME DIAGNOSTIC TEST; HUMAN; INCOME; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PATIENT TRANSPORT; POOR URBAN SETTLEMENT; PRODUCTIVITY; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN AREA; WORKLOAD; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; SOCIOECONOMICS; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGED; CAMBODIA; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TUBERCULOSIS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84941620809     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130179     Document Type: Article

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