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Assessing access barriers to tuberculosis care with the tool to Estimate Patients' Costs: pilot results from two districts in Kenya

BACKGROUND: The poor face geographical, socio-cultural and health system barriers in accessing tuberculosis care. These may cause delays to timely diagnosis and treatment resulting in more advanced disease and continued transmission of TB. By addressing barriers and reasons for delay, costs incurred...

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Autores principales: Mauch, Verena, Woods, Naomi, Kirubi, Beatrice, Kipruto, Hillary, Sitienei, Joseph, Klinkenberg, Eveline
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3033813/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21244656
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-11-43