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

Introduction 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 six months following...

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Main Authors: Stella Zawedde-Muyanja, Joseph Musaazi, Yukari C. Manabe, Achilles Katamba, Joaniter I. Nankabirwa, Barbara Castelnuovo, Adithya Cattamanchi, Remco PH Peters
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7673517/?tool=EBI