Tuberculosis Management Practices of Private Practitioners in Pune Municipal Corporation, India
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Tuberculosis Management Practices of Private Practitioners in Pune Municipal Corporation, India
BACKGROUND Private Practitioners (PP) are the primary source of health care for patients in India. Limited representative information is available on TB management practices of Indian PP or on the efficacy of India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) to improve the quality of TB management through training of PP. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional survey of a systema...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097993