A combination of quantitative and qualitative methods in investigating risk factors for lost to follow-up for tuberculosis treatment in Japan – Are physicians and nurses at a particular risk?

• Lisa Kawatsu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kawatsu@jata.or.jp

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti- tuberculosis Association (RIT/JATA), Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2666-844X

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• Kazuhiro Uchimura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuhiro Uchimura, Akihiro Ohkado, Seiya Kato

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti- tuberculosis Association (RIT/JATA), Tokyo, Japan

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• Akihiro Ohkado ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuhiro Uchimura, Akihiro Ohkado, Seiya Kato

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Research, the Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti- tuberculosis Association (RIT/JATA), Tokyo, Japan

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• Seiya Kato

  Contributed equally to this work with: Kazuhiro Uchimura, Akihiro Ohkado, Seiya Kato

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation the Research Institute of Tuberculosis, Japan Anti- tuberculosis Association (RIT/JATA), Tokyo, Japan

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