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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9502| Title: | Prospective evaluation of a complex public health intervention: Lessons from an initial and follow-up cross-sectional survey of the tuberculosis strain typing service in England |
| Authors: | Mears, J Abubakar, I Crisp, D Maguire, H Innes, JA Lilley, M Lord, J Cohen, T Borgdorff, MW Vynnycky, E McHugh, TD Sonnenberg, P |
| Keywords: | Complex intervention;MIRU-VNTR;Service evaluation;Strain typing;Tuberculosis |
| Issue Date: | 2014 |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. |
| Citation: | BMC Public Health, 14 (1): 1023, (2 October 2014) |
| Abstract: | Background: The national tuberculosis strain typing service (TB-STS) was introduced in England in 2010. The TB-STS involves MIRU-VNTR typing of isolates from all TB patients for the prospective identification, reporting and investigation of TB strain typing clusters. As part of a mixed-method evaluation, we report on a repeated cross-sectional survey to illustrate the challenges surrounding the evaluation of a complex national public health intervention. |
| Description: | This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
| URI: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2458/14/1023 http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/9502 |
| DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-14-1023 |
| ISSN: | 1471-2458 |
| Appears in Collections: | Health Economics Research Group (HERG) |
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