Tuberculosis care among refugees arriving in Europe: A ERS/WHO Europe Region survey of current practices

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 808-817

  Dara, Masoud ^a   Solovic, Ivan ^b   Sotgiu, Giovanni ^c   D'Ambrosio, Lia ^d,e   Centis, Rosella ^d   Tran, Richard ^a   Goletti, Delia ^f   Duarte, Raquel ^g   Aliberti, Stefano ^h   De Benedictis, Fernando Maria ⁱ   Bothamley, Graham ^j   Schaberg, Tom ^k   Abubakar, Ibrahim ^l   Teixeira, Vitor ^m   Ward, Brian ^m   Gratziou, Christina ⁿ   Migliori, Giovanni Battista ^d  

^a European Union   (Belgium)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY IN RU OMBEROK   (Slovakia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASSARI   (Italy)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^e Public Health Consulting Group SAGL   (Switzerland)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES L SPALLANZANI   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

ⁱ Salesi Children's Hospital   (Italy)

^j HOMERTON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^k Department of Pneumology   (Germany)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m European Respiratory Society   (Belgium)

ⁿ Evgenidion Hospital   (Greece)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; TUBERCULIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD EXAMINATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COOPERATION; EUROPE; FUNDING; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON GAMMA RELEASE ASSAY; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; LEGAL ASPECT; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT ISOLATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; REFUGEE; SCREENING; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; MASS SCREENING; MIGRATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; EUROPE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTERFERON-GAMMA RELEASE TESTS; LATENT TUBERCULOSIS; MASS SCREENING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; REFUGEES; SURVEYS AND QUESTIONNAIRES; TRANSIENTS AND MIGRANTS; TUBERCULIN TEST; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84986197823     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/13993003.00840-2016     Document Type: Article

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