Mortality and failure among tuberculosis patients who did not complete treatment in Vietnam: A cohort study

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Vree, Marleen ^a,b   Huong, Nguyen T ^c   Duong, Bui D ^c   Sy, Dinh N ^c   Van, Le N ^d   Co, Nguyen V ^c   Cobelens, Frank G J ^a,b   Borgdorff, Martien W ^a,b  

^a KNCV TUBERCULOSIS FOUNDATION   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c National Tuberculosis Program   (Viet Nam)

^d National Hospital of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; SPUTUM SMEAR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBERCULOSIS; VIET NAM; ADOLESCENT; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DRUG EFFECT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; SPUTUM; STATISTICS; TREATMENT FAILURE;

TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; SPUTUM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; VIETNAM;

EID: 34547889133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-134     Document Type: Article

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