Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 6 , Pages 602-612 , June 2008

A survey of tuberculosis clinic provision in England and Wales

  • Sooria Balasegaram

      Affiliations

    • National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions, Royal College of Physicians, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author.
    • ,
  • Robert Grant

      Affiliations

    • National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions, Royal College of Physicians, UK
    • ,
  • Peter Ormerod

      Affiliations

    • East Lancashire NHS Trust, UK
    • ,
  • Jonathan Mant

      Affiliations

    • University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
    • ,
  • John Hayward

      Affiliations

    • Newham Primary Care Trust, London, UK
    • ,
  • Derek Lowe

      Affiliations

    • National Collaborating Centre for Chronic Conditions, Royal College of Physicians, UK
    • ,
  • Alistair Story

      Affiliations

    • Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency, UK

Received 1 March 2007 ,Revised 27 July 2007 ,Accepted 24 September 2007.

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PII: S0033-3506(07)00321-6

doi: 10.1016/j.puhe.2007.09.015

Public Health
Volume 122, Issue 6 , Pages 602-612 , June 2008

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