Predictors of mortality and loss to follow-up among drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Oromia Hospitals, Ethiopia: A retrospective follow-up study

Demelash Woldeyohannes; Yohannes Tekalegn; Biniyam Sahiledengle; Tesfaye Assefa; Rameto Aman; Zeleke Hailemariam; Lillian Mwanri; Alemu Girma

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0250804

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Predictors of mortality and loss to follow-up among drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Oromia Hospitals, Ethiopia: A retrospective follow-up study

Demelash Woldeyohannes ,

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

* E-mail: woldemel@wcu.edu.et

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Collage of Medicine and Health Science, Wachemo University, Hossana, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4071-795X

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Yohannes Tekalegn,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Health Science, Madda Walabu University, Bale Goba, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6628-8180

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Biniyam Sahiledengle,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Health Science, Madda Walabu University, Bale Goba, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1114-4849

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Tesfaye Assefa,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, School of Health Science, Goba Referral Hospital, Madda Walabu University, Bale Goba, Ethiopia

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5474-0782

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Rameto Aman,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Health Science, Madda Walabu University, Bale Goba, Ethiopia
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Zeleke Hailemariam,

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Collage of Medicine and Health Science, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia
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Lillian Mwanri,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Medicine and Public Health, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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Alemu Girma

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Health Science, Goba Referral Hospital, Madda Walabu University, Bale Goba, Ethiopia
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Predictors of mortality and loss to follow-up among drug resistant tuberculosis patients in Oromia Hospitals, Ethiopia: A retrospective follow-up study

Demelash Woldeyohannes,
Yohannes Tekalegn,
Biniyam Sahiledengle,
Tesfaye Assefa,
Rameto Aman,
Zeleke Hailemariam,
Lillian Mwanri,
Alemu Girma

Published: May 6, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0250804

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