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Survey of Tuberculosis Hospitals in China: Current Status and Challenges

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  • Jian Du
  • Yu Pang
  • Yuhong Liu
  • Fengling Mi
  • Shaofa Xu
  • Liang Li

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Background: Hospitals will play an increasingly important role in delivering TB services in China, however little is known in terms of the current landscape of the hospital system that delivers TB care. Methodology/Principal Findings: In order to examine the status of TB hospitals we performed a study in which a total of 203 TB hospitals, with 30 beds or more, were enrolled from 31 provinces and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps. Of the 203 hospitals, 93 (45.8%) were located in the eastern region of China, 84 (41.4%) in the central region, and 26 (12.8%) in the western region, while there were 34.6 million TB patients in western China, accounting for 34.6% of the TB burden nationwide. The total number of staff in these 203 hospitals was 83,011, of which 18,899 (22.8%) provided health services for TB patients, (physicians, nurses, lab technicians, etc). Although both the overall number of the health care workers and TB staff in the 203 hospitals increased from the year 1999 to 2009, the former increased by 52%, while the latter increased only by 34%, showing that the percentage of TB staff declined significantly (χ2 = 181.7, P

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  • Jian Du & Yu Pang & Yuhong Liu & Fengling Mi & Shaofa Xu & Liang Li, 2014. "Survey of Tuberculosis Hospitals in China: Current Status and Challenges," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(11), pages 1-6, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0111945
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0111945
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    1. Lixia Wang & Renzhong Li & Caihong Xu & Hui Zhang & Yunzhou Ruan & Mingting Chen & Dongmei Wang & Emilio Dirlikov & Xin Du & Jin Zhao & Yanlin Zhao & ShengFen Wang & Yuhong Liu & Liang Li & Dennis Fal, 2017. "The Global Fund in China: Multidrug-resistant tuberculosis nationwide programmatic scale-up and challenges to transition to full country ownership," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(6), pages 1-13, June.

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