Risk factors associated with death in patients who initiate treatment for tuberculosis after two different follow-up periods Fatores de risco associados com o óbito em pacientes que iniciam o tratamento para a tuberculose após dois diferentes períodos de seguimento

• Main Authors: Maria de Fátima Pessoa Militão de Albuquerque (Author), Joanna d'Arc Lyra Batista (Author), Ricardo Arraes de Alencar Ximenes (Author), Marília Sá Carvalho (Author), George Tadeu Nunes Diniz (Author), Laura Cunha Rodrigues (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Associação Brasileira de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva, 2009-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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INTRODUCTION: Mortality from tuberculosis, which should be a rare event, still affects a large portion of the population of developing countries. In this context, Recife, a city in the northeast of Brazil where this study was developed, has the highest tuberculosis mortality rates of the Brazilian c...