Competing risk models to evaluate the factors for time to loss to follow-up among tuberculosis patients at Ambo General Hospital.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A major challenge for most tuberculosis programs is the inability of tuberculosis patients to complete treatment for one reason or another. Failure to complete the treatment contributes to the emergence of multidrug-resistant TB. This study aimed to evaluate the risk factors for time to loss to follow-up treatment by considering death as a competing risk event among tuberculosis patients admitted to directly observed treatment short course at Ambo General Hospital, Ambo, Ethiopia.

Methods

Data collected from 457 tuberculosis patients from January 2018 to January 2022 were used for the analysis. The cause-specific hazard and sub-distribution hazard models for competing risks were used to model the outcome of interest and to identify the prognostic factors associate

SUBMITTER: Fufa DB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10290796 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature