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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...
Autores principales: | Zawedde-Muyanja, Stella, Katamba, Achilles, Cattamanchi, Adithya, Castelnuovo, Barbara, Manabe, Yukari C. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2020
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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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