Assessment of the effectiveness of a home-based care program for patients coinfected with tuberculosis and human immunodeficiency virus after discharge from a reference hospital in South-Eastern Brazil

The effectiveness of tuberculosis treatment delivered by a home-based care program to patients coinfected with HIV was compared with that of a service provided by outpatient departments. A retrospective study was made of a cohort of coinfected patients discharged from hospital between January 1998 a...

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Main Authors: Carlos Alessandro Plá Bento, Enio Roberto Pietra Pedroso
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier
Series:Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
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