An economic evaluation of the LINKEDin study: An intervention to reduce initial loss to follow-up among tuberculosis patients in South Africa

• Michael Strauss ,

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

  * E-mail: straussm@ukzn.ac.za

  Affiliation Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7849-8812

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• Muhammad Osman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, Faculty of Education, Health and Human Sciences, School of Human Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3818-9729

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• Sue-Ann Meehan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0826-1833

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• Florian M. Marx,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Infectious Disease and Tropical Medicine, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany, DSI-NRF South African Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Anneke C. Hesseling,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Desmond Tutu TB Centre, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Andrew Boulle,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Health and Wellness, Health Intelligence Directorate, Western Cape Government, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Pren Naidoo,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public health Management Consultant, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gavin George

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

  Affiliations Health Economics and HIV and AIDS Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Division of Social Medicine and Global Health, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7258-8470

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