Loss-to-follow-up and delay to treatment initiation in Pakistan’s national tuberculosis control programme
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Loss-to-follow-up and delay to treatment initiation in Pakistan’s national tuberculosis control programme
BACKGROUND Researchers and policy-makers have identified loss to follow-up as a major programmatic problem. Therefore, the objective of this study is to quantify TB related pre-treatment loss to follow up and treatment delay in private sector health care facilities in Pakistan. METHODS This was a retrospective, descriptive cohort study using routinely collected programmatic data from TB refer...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Public Health
سال: 2018
ISSN: 1471-2458
DOI: 10.1186/s12889-018-5222-2