Patient and health system factors associated with pretreatment loss to follow up among patients diagnosed with tuberculosis using Xpert® MTB/RIF testing in Uganda

BACKGROUND: In 2018, Uganda started only 65% of persons with incident tuberculosis on treatment. Pretreatment loss to follow up is an important contributor to suboptimal treatment coverage. We aimed to describe the patient and health facility-level characteristics associated with pretreatment loss t...

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Autores principales: Zawedde-Muyanja, Stella, Katamba, Achilles, Cattamanchi, Adithya, Castelnuovo, Barbara, Manabe, Yukari C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7713043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33272226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09955-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7713043/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33272226
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12889-020-09955-0

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