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"Cough officer screening" improves detection of pulmonary tuberculosis in hospital in-patients

BACKGROUND: Current tuberculosis (TB) reporting protocols are insufficient to achieve the goals established by the Stop TB partnership. Some countries have recommended implementation of active case finding program. We assessed the effect of Cough Officer Screening (an active screening system) on the...

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Autores principales: Lin, Ching-Hsiung, Tsai, Cheng-Hung, Liu, Chun-Eng, Huang, Mei-Li, Chang, Shu-Chen, Wen, Jen-Ho, Chai, Woei-Horng
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20459732
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-10-238