Assessing the quality of tuberculosis evaluation for children with prolonged cough presenting to routine community health care settings in rural Uganda.

Improving childhood tuberculosis (TB) evaluation and care is a global priority, but data on performance at community health centers in TB endemic regions are sparse.To describe the current practices and quality of TB evaluation for children with cough ≥2 weeks' duration presenting to community...

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Main Authors: Carina Marquez, J Lucian Davis, Achilles Katamba, Priscilla Haguma, Emmanuel Ochom, Irene Ayakaka, Gabriel Chamie, Grant Dorsey, Moses R Kamya, Edwin Charlebois, Diane V Havlir, Adithya Cattamanchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4149493?pdf=render