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Patients direct costs to undergo TB diagnosis
BACKGROUND: A major impediment to the treatment of TB is a diagnostic process that requires multiple visits. Descriptions of patient costs associated with diagnosis use different protocols and are not comparable. METHODS: We aimed to describe the direct costs incurred by adults attending TB diagnost...
Autores principales: | de Cuevas, Rachel M. Anderson, Lawson, Lovett, Al-Sonboli, Najla, Al-Aghbari, Nasher, Arbide, Isabel, Sherchand, Jeevan B., Nnamdi, Emenyonu E., Aseffa, Abraham, Yassin, Mohammed A., Abdurrahman, Saddiq T., Obasanya, Joshua, Olanrewaju, Oladimeji, Datiko, Daniel, Theobald, Sally J., Ramsay, Andrew, Squire, S. Bertel, Cuevas, Luis E. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4806474/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27009093 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0117-x |
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