Patient and health system factors associated with pretreatment loss to follow up among patients diagnosed with tuberculosis using Xpert® MTB/RIF testing in Uganda

• मुख्य लेखकों: Stella Zawedde-Muyanja (लेखक), Achilles Katamba (लेखक), Adithya Cattamanchi (लेखक), Barbara Castelnuovo (लेखक), Yukari C. Manabe (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: BMC, 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Abstract 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 pretreatmen...