Improving tuberculosis diagnosis: Better tests or better healthcare?

PLoS Med. 2017 Oct 17;14(10):e1002406. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1002406. eCollection 2017 Oct.

Abstract

In a Perspective accompanying Sylvia and colleagues, Carlton Evans and colleagues discuss the challenge of squaring policies around tuberculosis diagnosis with the realities of clinical practice in small villages and low-resource settings.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Delivery of Health Care / legislation & jurisprudence*
  • Humans
  • Quality of Health Care*
  • Tuberculosis / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis / therapy*