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Feasibility of a short message service (SMS) intervention to deliver tuberculosis testing results in peri-urban and rural Uganda
BACKGROUND: Pre-treatment loss to follow-up is common for patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in high-burden countries. Delivering test results by Short-Messaging-Service (SMS) is increasingly being considered as a solution, but there is limited information about its feasibility as a public he...
Autores principales: | Babirye, Diana, Shete, Priya B., Farr, Katherine, Nalugwa, Talemwa, Ojok, Christopher, Nantale, Mariam, Oyuku, Denis, Ayakaka, Irene, Katamba, Achilles, Davis, J. Lucian, Nadunga, Diana, Joloba, Moses, Moore, David, Cattamanchi, Adithya |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Elsevier
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6830162/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31720434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jctube.2019.100110 |
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