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Effect of missed clinic visits on treatment outcomes among people with tuberculosis: a quasi-experimental study utilizing instrumental variable analysis.
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- Factors Associated With Tuberculosis Treatment Failure Among Hill Tribe and Stateless People in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand: A Case-Control Study.Tropical medicine & international health : TM & IH · 2026Article
- High prevalence of persistent tuberculosis-related symptoms 6 months after treatment in pulmonary tuberculosis.BMJ open respiratory research · 2026Observational
- Effect of facility- versus community-based HIV testing services on the diagnosis of advanced HIV disease in Uganda: a quasi-experimental study.BMC infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Multi-month dispensing of tuberculosis medications in sub-Saharan Africa: A feasible, person-centered care model.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2025Article
- Effect of Active Follow-Up on Viral Load Suppression among People Living with HIV on Intensive Adherence Counseling in Uganda: An Instrumental Variable Analysis.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2025Article
- Causal inference methodologies to assess the effect of missed clinic visits on treatment success rate among people with tuberculosis in rural Uganda.BMC medical research methodology · 2025Article
- Appropriateness, barriers, and facilitators of multi-month dispensing of tuberculosis drugs in rural eastern Uganda: A qualitative study to inform a non-inferiority randomized trial.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Barriers and facilitators to integrating tuberculosis treatment into community pharmacies for people with TB/HIV in Kampala, Uganda: A qualitative study.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objectives: Missed clinic visits disrupt the continuity of care and potentially impact tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes negatively. We evaluated the effect of missed clinic visits on mortality and treatment success among people with bacteriologically confirmed pulmonary TB in rural eastern Uganda. Methods: Using routine TB clinic data, we designed a quasi-experimental study and used instrumental variable analysis to estimate a cause-effect. The exposure was one or more missed clinic visit(s), the instrumental variable was patient residence in the same sub-county as the TB clinic, and the outcomes were mortality and treatment success. We performed a two-stage least squares logistic regression for causal analysis and reported the odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (CI). Results: Of 762 participants with similar baseline characteristics, 186 (24.4%) missed ≥1 clinic visit(s), 342 (44.9%) resided in the same sub-county as the TB clinic, 61 (8.0%) had died, and 687 (90.2%) were successfully treated for TB. Missed clinic visits increased mortality (OR 2.88, 95% CI 1.36-6.13) and reduced TB treatment success (OR 0.41, 95% CI 0.20-0.82). Conclusions: Missed clinic visits increase mortality and negatively impact treatment success among people with TB. The reasons for missed clinic visits should be identified and tackled through context-specific measures.
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