The usefulness and feasibility of mobile interface in tuberculosis notification (MITUN) voice based system for notification of tuberculosis by private medical practitioners - A pilot project

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Velayutham, Banurekha ^a   Thomas, Beena ^a   Nair, Dina ^a   Thiruvengadam, Kannan ^a   Prashant, Suma ^a   Kittusami, Sathyapriya ^a   Vijayakumar, Harivanzan ^c   Chidambaram, Meenachi ^c   Shivakumar, Shri Vijay Bala Yogendra ^b   Jayabal, Lavanya ^b   Jhunjhunwala, Ashok ^b   Swaminathan, Soumya ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN TUBERCULOSIS   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY MADRAS   (India)

^c District Tuberculosis Officer   (India)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION CONTROL; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); MOBILE PHONE; PILOT STUDY; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TEXT MESSAGING; TUBERCULOSIS; ADULT; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; MALE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROCEDURES; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; CELL PHONES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONERS; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRIVATE PRACTICE; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84945969994     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138274     Document Type: Article

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