Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: A pilot, cross-sectional study

The Lancet Infectious Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1305-1313

  Das, Jishnu ^a,b   Kwan, Ada ^a   Daniels, Benjamin ^a   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^c   Subbaraman, Ramnath ^d   Bergkvist, Sofi ^e   Das, Ranendra K ^f   Das, Veena ^f,g   Pai, Madhukar ^c  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Center for Policy Research   (India)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e ACCESS Health International   (India)

^f Institute for Social and Economic Research on Development and Democracy   (India)

^g JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLONE DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TUBERCULOSIS; VALIDATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; INDIA; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; TUBERCULOSIS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84945477204     PISSN: 14733099     EISSN: 14744457     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1473-3099(15)00077-8     Document Type: Article

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