Some interesting observations regarding TB patient management from a rural area of Madhya Pradesh: TB case series

Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The Government of India has adopted the Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy for the entire country through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for the treatment...

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Autores principales: Singh, Akash Ranjan, Pakhare, Abhijit, Chauhan, Ashish, Singh, Abhishek
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4776615/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26985422
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.174300
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description Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The Government of India has adopted the Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy for the entire country through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for the treatment of TB. In this report, we have presented the trajectories for care seeking of two TB cases who suffered from either “patient level delays” or “health system-related delays” in seeking DOTS for the treatment of TB.
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spelling pubmed-47766152016-03-16 Some interesting observations regarding TB patient management from a rural area of Madhya Pradesh: TB case series Singh, Akash Ranjan Pakhare, Abhijit Chauhan, Ashish Singh, Abhishek J Family Med Prim Care Case Report Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The Government of India has adopted the Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy for the entire country through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for the treatment of TB. In this report, we have presented the trajectories for care seeking of two TB cases who suffered from either “patient level delays” or “health system-related delays” in seeking DOTS for the treatment of TB. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4776615/ /pubmed/26985422 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2249-4863.174300 Text en Copyright: © 2015 Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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