Missed Opportunities for TB Investigation in Primary Care Clinics in South Africa: Experience from the XTEND Trial

SETTING: 40 primary health clinics (PHCs) in four provinces in South Africa, June 2012 –February 2013. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether health care worker (HCW) practice in investigating people with TB symptoms was altered when the initial test for TB was changed from smear microscopy to Xpert MTB/RI...

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Autores principales: Chihota, Violet N., Ginindza, Sibuse, McCarthy, Kerrigan, Grant, Alison D., Churchyard, Gavin, Fielding, Katherine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4575203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26383102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138149

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4575203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26383102
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0138149

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