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Pre-diagnosis and pre-treatment loss to follow-up and associated factors among presumptive tuberculosis patients in Uganda

2024-07-22

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Background Loss to follow-up (LTFU) of presumptive tuberculosis (TB) patients before completing diagnosis (pre-diagnosis LTFU) and before initiating treatment for those diagnosed (pre-treatment LTFU) is a challenge in the realization of the End TB Strategy. We assessed the proportion of pre-diagnosis and pre-treatment LTFU and associated factors among presumptive and diagnosed TB patie...

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-4641015/v1
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