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Informal Health Provider and Practical Approach to Lung Health interventions to improve the detection of chronic airways disease and tuberculosis at primary care level in Malawi: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: In developing countries like Malawi, further investigation is rare after patients with chronic cough test negative for tuberculosis. Chronic airways disease has presentations that overlap with tuberculosis. However, chronic airways disease is often unrecognised due to a lack of diagnosti...

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Autores principales:	Banda, Hastings T, Mortimer, Kevin, Bello, George AF, Mbera, Grace B, Namakhoma, Ireen, Thomson, Rachael, Nyirenda, Moffat J, Faragher, Brian, Madan, Jason, Malmborg, Rasmus, Stenberg, Berthe, Mpunga, James, Mwagomba, Beatrice, Gama, Elvis, Piddock, Katherine, Squire, Stephen B
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2015
Materias:	Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4683704/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26679768 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13063-015-1068-4

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