Health care seeking behavior and patient delay in tuberculosis diagnosis
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Health care seeking behavior and patient delay in tuberculosis diagnosis.
Delays in diagnosis of TB cases are major impeding factors in the control of TB. The objectives of this study were to describe the health care seeking behavior of TB patients, assessing patient delay and the number of health care facilities visited before the start of TB treatment. A cross-sectional study was carried out with adult patients with pulmonary TB presenting to two TB facilities to s...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cadernos de Saúde Pública
سال: 2015
ISSN: 0102-311X
DOI: 10.1590/0102-311x00195413