Predictive factors for treatment incompletion in elderly patients with newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis

Kekkaku

Volumn 82, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 803-808

  Fuse, Etsu Tsuzuki ^a   Takeda, Yuichiro ^a   Toyoda, Emiko ^a   Mikami, Ayako ^a   Kobayashi, Nobuyuki ^a   Kudo, Koichiro ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complete treatment; Elderly patients; Performance status; Pulmonary tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANOXIA; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SLEEP; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANOXIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DRUG RESISTANCE, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; KARNOFSKY PERFORMANCE STATUS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SLEEP; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY;

EID: 38749108877     PISSN: 00229776     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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