Adherence by Dutch public health nurses to the national guidelines for tuberculosis contact investigation.

OBJECTIVES: To assess whether public health nurses adhered to Dutch guidelines for tuberculosis contact investigations and to explore which factors influenced the process of identifying contacts, prioritizing contacts for testing and scaling up a contact investigation. METHODS: A multiple-case study...

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Main Authors: Christiaan Mulder, Janneke Harting, Niesje Jansen, Martien W Borgdorff, Frank van Leth
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3498228?pdf=render