Can tuberculosis patients in resource-constrained settings afford chest radiography?
Open Access
- 23 December 2016
- journal article
- Published by European Respiratory Society (ERS) in European Respiratory Journal
- Vol. 49 (3), 1601877
- https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01877-2016
Abstract
In many low- and middle-income countries chest radiographs are not free of charge for TB patients http://ow.ly/SA7l305Yzk2This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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