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Community-involved strategy to improve tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes in Eastern Region of Ghana
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Boateng Samuel Agyemang
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Kodama Tomoko
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Sata Fumihiro
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Bonsu George
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Osawa Eri
… Objective: To evaluate decentralization and community supervision of tuberculosis treatment as an effective intervention to improve treatment outcomes in Eastern Region of Ghana.Methods: A historical comparison of treatment outcomes of cohorts registered in 2003-2005 with centralized Directly Observed Treatment short course (DOTs) at health facility level and cohorts registered in 2007-2009 with decentralized DOTs at the community level. …
Journal of the National Institute of Public Health 61(4), 357-365, 2012-08-00
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