Optimal timing of drug sensitivity testing for patients on first-line tuberculosis treatment

Effective treatment for tuberculosis (TB) patients on first-line treatment involves triaging those with drug-resistant (DR) TB to appropriate treatment alternatives. Patients likely to have DR TB are identified using results from repeated inexpensive sputum-smear (SS) tests and expensive but definit...

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Published in:Health Care Manag Sci
Main Authors: Suen, Sze-chuan, Brandeau, Margaret L., Goldhaber-Fiebert, Jeremy D.
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 2017
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5832607/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28861650
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10729-017-9416-4
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