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Determinants of default from pulmonary tuberculosis treatment in Kuwait.
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- Quantifying non-adherence to anti-tuberculosis treatment due to early discontinuation: a systematic literature review of timings to loss to follow-up.BMJ open respiratory research · 2024Pooled it
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- Prevalence and predictive factors of tuberculosis treatment interruption in the Asia region: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ global health · 2023Pooled it
- Factors predictive of the success of tuberculosis treatment: A systematic review with meta-analysis.PloS one · 2019Pooled it
- Unmasking the Determinants of Loss to Follow-Up in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Study in Selangor, Malaysia.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2025Article
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- T-BACCO SCORE: A predictive scoring tool for tuberculosis (TB) loss to follow-up among TB smokers.PloS one · 2023Article
- FACTORS CONTRIBUTING TO PULMONARY TB TREATMENT LOST TO FOLLOW-UP IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: AN OVERVIEW.African journal of infectious diseases · 2023Article
- Incidence and predictors of treatment interruption among patients on anti-tuberculosis treatment in Nekemte public healthcare facilities, Oromia, Western Ethiopia.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2023Article
- Characteristics and determinants of loss to follow-up among tuberculosis (TB) patients who smoke in an industrial state of Malaysia: a registry-based study of the years 2013-2017.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Survival of people living with HIV who defaulted from tuberculosis treatment in a cohort, Recife, Brazil.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Article
- Diabetes-related tuberculosis in the Middle East: an urgent need for regional research.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2015Review
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Abstract
objectivesTo determine the prevalence and risk factors of default from pulmonary tuberculosis treatment in Kuwait.
designRetrospective study. PATIENTS AND
methodsWe studied all patients who were registered for pulmonary tuberculosis treatment between January 1, 2010, and December 31, 2012, and admitted into TB wards in El Rashid Center or treated in the outpatient clinic in TB Control Unit.
resultsThere were 110 (11.5%) patients who defaulted from treatment. Fifty-six percent of those who defaulted did so in the first 2 months of treatment and 86.4% of them were still bacteriologically positive at the time of default. Key risk factors associated with noncompliance were male sex, low educational level, non-Kuwaiti nations, history of default, and history of concomitant diabetes mellitus, liver disease, or lung cancer. Multiple drug resistance was also associated with default from treatment.
conclusionDefault from treatment may be partially responsible for the persistent relatively high rates of tuberculosis in Kuwait. Health professionals and policy makers should ensure that all barriers to treatment are removed and that incentives are used to encourage treatment compliance.
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