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A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods in investigating risk factors for lost to follow-up for tuberculosis treatment in Japan – Are physicians and nurses at a particular risk?

BACKGROUND: The treatment success rate of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) patients aged 64 years and below in Japan, a tuberculosis (TB) middle-burden country with a notification of 13.9 per 100,000 populations in 2016, has been fluctuating around 70% for some years. In order to improve treatment outco...

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Autores principales: Kawatsu, Lisa, Uchimura, Kazuhiro, Ohkado, Akihiro, Kato, Seiya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6003677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29906287
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0198075

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