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Time to death and risk factors among tuberculosis patients in Northern Ethiopia
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Abstract
Objective:The main objective of this study was to assess time to death and associated risk factors among tuberculosis (TB) patients.Results:A total of 769 TB patients were studied and of those, 87 (11.3%) patients died. All of the deaths occurred within 7 months of anti-tuberculosis therapy. Extra-pulmonary TB (AHR = 17.376, 95% CI; 3.88–77.86, p
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Authors/Creators: | Asgedom, SW and Tesfaye, D and Nirayo, YL and Atey, TM |
| Keywords: | time to death, tuberculosis, risk factors, Ethiopia |
| Journal or Publication Title: | BMC Research Notes |
| Publisher: | BioMed Central Ltd. |
| ISSN: | 1756-0500 |
| DOI / ID Number: | 10.1186/s13104-018-3806-7 |
| Copyright Information: | © The Author(s) 2018. Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License, (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. |
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