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ArticlePublic health action2012

Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among retreatment patients registered by private practitioners in Myanmar.

A N Win, M E Edginton, S G Hinderaker, N N Minn, A K Linn

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Article in Public health action, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. A systematic review of clinical outcomes on the WHO Category II retreatment regimen for tuberculosis.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2018
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

A N WinPopulation Services International, Mandalay, Myanmar.
M E EdgintonInternational Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France.
S G HinderakerCentre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
N N MinnPopulation Services International, Mandalay, Myanmar.
A K LinnPopulation Services International, Mandalay, Myanmar.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objectives of this retrospective cohort study were to report treatment outcomes and identify factors associated with treatment failure among all retreatment tuberculosis (TB) patients registered in the public-private mix DOTS programme of Populations Services International-Myanmar over 6 years. Among 3643 retreatment patients, 2657 (73%) were successfully treated and 309 (8.5%) failed. This study shows that retreatment patients who have failed treatment for their first TB episode are almost twice as likely to fail a second time (13.5%). We have identified some key programmatic challenges associated with retreatment TB in the private sector, and steps are being taken to address this issue.

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operational researchPPM-DOTSPSI-Myanmar

Identifiers

PMID26392957
PMCPMC4463049

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