Missed opportunities for TB investigation in primary care clinics in South Africa: Experience from the XTEND trial

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2015, Pages

  Chihota, Violet N ^a,b   Ginindza, Sibuse ^a   McCarthy, Kerrigan ^a,b   Grant, Alison D ^b,c   Churchyard, Gavin ^a,b,c   Fielding, Katherine ^c  

^a AURUM INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FEVER; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NIGHT SWEAT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY HEALTH CLINIC; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMEAR MICROSCOPY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM SMEAR; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WORK EXPERIENCE; YOUNG ADULT; HEALTH SERVICE; MASS SCREENING; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SPUTUM; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPUTUM; TUBERCULOSIS;

EID: 84946594954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0138149     Document Type: Article

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