Non-compliance with Anti-tuberculosis Treatment at Colombo Chest Clinic
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Poor compliance with tuberculosis (TB) treatment has reportedly been cited as one of the major obstacles which has led to spread of TB and development of multi-drug resistant and chronic TB. The objective is to determine the factors for non-compliance to anti-TB treatment among patients attending Colombo Chest Clinic (CCC), in 1999. The design for this retrospective are treatment defaulters, who responded to a postal questionnaire.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005