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“When Treatment Is More Challenging than the Disease”: A Qualitative Study of MDR-TB Patient Retention

BACKGROUND: One-fifth of the patients on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment at the Drug-Resistant-TB (DR-TB) Site in Gujarat are lost-to-follow-up(LFU). OBJECTIVE: To understand patients’ and providers' perspectives on reasons for LFU and their suggestions to improve retention-in-care....

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Autores principales: Shringarpure, Kalpita S., Isaakidis, Petros, Sagili, Karuna D., Baxi, R. K., Das, Mrinalini, Daftary, Amrita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4784928/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26959366
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150849

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