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Cost of using a patient tracer to reduce loss to follow-up and ascertain patient status in a large antiretroviral therapy program in Johannesburg, South Africa
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate a pilot intervention to engage a patient tracer to follow up lost patients at a large public clinic in South Africa. METHODS: A social worker spent 4 months contacting by telephone a random sample of patients who had initiated antiretroviral therapy (ART) at least 6 months ear...
Autores principales: | Rosen, Sydney, Ketlhapile, Mpefe |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059411/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20586967 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02512.x |
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