Patient and health care system characteristics are associated with delayed treatment of tuberculosis cases in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chien-Chou Chen (Author), Po-Huang Chiang (Author), Yen-Hsu Chen (Author), I-Chun Fan (Author), Ta-Chien Chan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2019-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background The decline of the incidence rate of tuberculosis in Taiwan has been partly attributed to the launch of the directly observed therapy short course (DOTS) program in 2006, followed by the DOTS-Plus in 2007. However, with the phasing out of the specialized tuberculosis care system...