Mortality, TB/HIV co-infection, and treatment dropout: predictors of tuberculosis prognosis in Recife, Pernambuco State, Brazil Mortalidade, co-infecção por HIV/AIDS e abandono do tratamento como fatores prognósticos para tuberculose em Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil

This non-concurrent cohort study aims to identify predictors of tuberculosis mortality in a large population database in Brazil. Tuberculosis, death, and TB/HIV cases were validated respectively from the tuberculosis surveillance (SINAN/TB), mortality (SIM), and SINAN/AIDS databases for a five-year...

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Published in:	Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Main Authors:	Mirian Pereira Domingos, Waleska Teixeira Caiaffa, Enrico Antônio Colosimo
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz 2008-04-01
Subjects:	Tuberculose Sobrevida Mortalidade Desistência do Paciente Tuberculosis Survivorship Mortality Patient Dropouts
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-311X2008000400020