Structured approaches for the screening and diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis in a high prevalence region of South Africa

• Main Authors: Mark Hatherill (Author), Monique Hanslo (Author), Tony Hawkridge (Author), Francesca Little (Author), Lesley Workman (Author), Hassan Mahomed (Author), Michele Tameris (Author), Sizulu Moyo (Author), Hennie Geldenhuys (Author), Willem Hanekom (Author), Lawrence Geiter (Author), Gregory Hussey (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: The World Health Organization, 2010-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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OBJECTIVE: To measure agreement between nine structured approaches for diagnosing childhood tuberculosis; to quantify differences in the number of tuberculosis cases diagnosed with the different approaches, and to determine the distribution of cases in different categories of diagnostic certainty. M...