Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in Europe: Based on Treatment Completion, Not Cure

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), successful treatment outcome from pulmonary TB includes patients who meet the criteria for cure and treatment completion (1). [...]WHO-defined definitions for cure and failure in patients with non-MDR-TB are frequently not met in many European countr...

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Published in:	American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine Vol. 196; no. 9; pp. 1222 - 1224
Main Authors:	Dedicoat, Martin J., Günther, Gunar, Crudu, Valeriu, Duarte, Raquel, Gualano, Gina, Magis-Escurra, Cecile, Rumetshofer, Rudolf, Skrahina, Alena, Spinu, Victor, Tiberi, Simon, Viiklepp, Piret, van Leth, Frank, Lange, Christoph
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States American Thoracic Society 01.11.2017
Subjects:	Antitubercular Agents - therapeutic use Clinical outcomes Cohort Studies Collaboration Culture Techniques Europe HIV HIV Infections - epidemiology Hospitals Human immunodeficiency virus Humans Laboratories Mortality Multidrug resistant organisms Odds Ratio Patients Population Prospective Studies Sputum - microbiology Success Treatment Outcome Tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - drug therapy Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology World Health Organization Europe
ISSN:	1073-449X, 1535-4970, 1535-4970
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