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Novel health system strategies for tuberculin skin testing at primary care clinics: Performance assessment and health economic evaluation
BACKGROUND: Tuberculin skin test (TST) for guiding initiation of tuberculosis preventive therapy poses major challenges in high tuberculosis burden settings. METHODS: At a primary care clinic in Johannesburg, South Africa, 278 HIV-positive adults self-read their TST by reporting if they felt a bump...
Autores principales: | Van Ginderdeuren, Eva, Bassett, Jean, Hanrahan, Colleen F., Mutunga, Lillian, Van Rie, Annelies |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Public Library of Science
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7888676/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33596215 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246523 |
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