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Improving case detection of tuberculosis in hospitalised Kenyan children-employing the behaviour change wheel to aid intervention design and implementation
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The true burden of tuberculosis in children remains unknown, but approximately 65% go undetected each year. Guidelines for tuberculosis clinical decision-making are in place in Kenya, and the National Tuberculosis programme conducts several trainings on them yearly. By 2018, there were 183 GeneXpert® machines in Kenyan public hospitals. Despite these efforts, diagnostic tests are underused and there is observed under detection of tuberculosis in children. We describe the proces...
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- Published
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- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1186/s13012-020-01061-4
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- Publisher:
- BioMed Central
- Journal:
- Implementation Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 102
- Publication date:
- 2020-11-25
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-10-30
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1748-5908
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1748-5908
- Pmid:
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33239055
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English
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1148010
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pubs:1148010
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2021-02-10
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- Oliwa et al.
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- 2020
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- ©2020 The Authors. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
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