Are tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care hospital in Hyderabad, India being managed according to national guidelines?

SETTING: A tertiary health care facility (Government General and Chest hospital) in Hyderabad, India. OBJECTIVES: To assess a) the extent of compliance of specialists to standardized national (RNTCP) tuberculosis management guidelines and b) if patients on discharge from hospital were being appropri...

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Main Authors: Kiran Kumar Kondapaka, Surapaneni Venkateswara Prasad, Srinath Satyanarayana, Subhakar Kandi, Rony Zachariah, Anthony David Harries, Sharath Burugina Nagaraja, Shailaja Tetali, Raghupathy Anchala, Nanda Kishore Kannuri, Krishna Murthy, Dhanamurthy Koppu, Latha Vangari, Sreenivas Rao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3260275?pdf=render