Estimating the effect of pretreatment loss to follow up on TB associated mortality at public health facilities in Uganda.

<h4>Introduction</h4>Tuberculosis (TB) mortality estimates derived only from cohorts of patients initiated on TB treatment do not consider outcomes of patients with pretreatment loss to follow-up (LFU). We aimed to assess the effect of pretreatment LFU on TB-associated mortality in the s...

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Main Authors: Stella Zawedde-Muyanja, Joseph Musaazi, Yukari C Manabe, Achilles Katamba, Joaniter I Nankabirwa, Barbara Castelnuovo, Adithya Cattamanchi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241611