Predictors of tuberculosis mortality among patients on treatment: A retrospective cohort study at a rural general hospital in Zambia

• Collins Mukubesa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Maamba General Hospital, Sinazongwe, Zambia

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• Lukundo Siame ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Lukundo Siame

  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: lukundosiame23@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Mulungushi University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Livingstone, Zambia, Department of Internal Medicine, Livingstone University Teaching Hospital, Livingstone, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4810-7352

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• Malan Malumani,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Mulungushi University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Livingstone, Zambia

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• Faceroy Nkole,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Maamba General Hospital, Sinazongwe, Zambia, Ministry of Health, Kazungula District Health Office, Kazungula, Zambia

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• Propheria C. Lwiindi,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Rusangu University, Monze, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5230-1882

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• Matenge Mutalange,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Mulungushi University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Livingstone, Zambia

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• Geofrey Mupeta,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Mulungushi University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Livingstone, Zambia

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• Memory Ngosa,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Mulungushi University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Livingstone, Zambia

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• Martin Chakulya,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Mulungushi University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Livingstone, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4997-2487

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• Benson M. Hamooya ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Mulungushi University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Livingstone, Zambia

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• Chitalu Chanda

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1186-5045

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