Staff Training and Ambulatory Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes: a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial in South Africa


 
Language:

English

Author:

Lewin S et al.

Publisher:

World Health Organization

Series/Journal Title:

Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Volume:

83

Issue:

4

Pages:

10

Description:

The objective of this study was to assess whether adding a training intervention for clinic staff to the usual DOTS strategy (the internationally recommended control strategy for tuberculosis (TB)) would affect the outcomes of TB treatement in primary care clinics with treatemet success rates below 70%. [from abstract]

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