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| Year : 2015 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 591-593 |
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Some interesting observations regarding TB patient management from a rural area of Madhya Pradesh: TB case series
Akash Ranjan Singh, Abhijit Pakhare, Ashish Chauhan, Abhishek Singh
Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India
Correspondence Address:
Akash Ranjan Singh
Department of Community and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Saket Nagar, Bhopal - 462 024, Madhya Pradesh
India
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DOI: 10.4103/2249-4863.174300
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Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The Government of India has adopted the Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy for the entire country through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for the treatment of TB. In this report, we have presented the trajectories for care seeking of two TB cases who suffered from either "patient level delays" or "health system-related delays" in seeking DOTS for the treatment of TB.
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