Individual and public health consequences associated with a missed diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis in the emergency department: A retrospective cohort study

• Courtney Heffernan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cheffern@ualberta.ca

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1241-7201

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• Catherine Paulsen,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Leyla Asadi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Mary-Lou Egedahl,

  Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Brian H. Rowe,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• James Barrie,

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Radiology and Diagnostic Imaging, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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• Richard Long

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, School of Public Health, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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