Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 5 , Pages 434-440 , May 2006

Are official reports sufficient? Official registration rates of patients with tuberculosis in Sivas, Middle Anatolia

  • S.L. Ozsahin

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chest Diseases, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • I. Akkurt

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chest Diseases, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • L. Ozdemir

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Address: Department of Public Health, Cumhuriyet Universitesi Tıp Fakultesi, Kampus, 58140 Sivas, Turkey. Tel.: +90 346 2191300 2846; fax: +90 346 2191151.
    • ,
  • O.T. Dogan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chest Diseases, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • A. Atalan

      Affiliations

    • Department of Chest Diseases, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey
    • ,
  • F. Kocoglu

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, Cumhuriyet University Medical School, Sivas, Turkey

Received 1 March 2005 ,Revised 8 November 2005 ,Accepted 7 December 2005.

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PII: S0033-3506(06)00029-1

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2005.12.006

Public Health
Volume 120, Issue 5 , Pages 434-440 , May 2006

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