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Tuberculosis
Data on tuberculosis detailed by researchers at University of Leeds
June 10th, 2008
"County tuberculosis (TB) dispensaries are the basic health care unit for the provision of TB services in China. In the rural hills of the western provinces of China, however, county centres are often far from patients' homes," scientists in Leeds, the United Kingdom report. "To evaluate whether decentralisation would result in improvements in patient access to TB services while maintaining the quality of the DOTS strategy. The present study compared TB services that were decentralised to township hospitals with two comparable control groups where township hospitals continued to routinely refer suspects to the county TB dispensaries. Training and super-vision of quality...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2008-06-10)
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