Feasibility of a short message service (SMS) intervention to deliver tuberculosis testing results in peri-urban and rural Uganda

Feasibility of a short message service (SMS) intervention to deliver tuberculosis testing results in peri-urban and rural Uganda

Background: Pre-treatment loss to follow-up is common for patients diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) in high-burden countries. Delivering test results by Short-Messaging-Service (SMS) is increasingly being considered as a solution, but there is limited information about its feasibility as a public he...

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Main Authors: Diana Babirye, Priya B. Shete, Katherine Farr, Talemwa Nalugwa, Christopher Ojok, Mariam Nantale, Denis Oyuku, Irene Ayakaka, Achilles Katamba, J. Lucian Davis, Diana Nadunga, Moses Joloba, David Moore, Adithya Cattamanchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-08-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240557941930018X

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