Effectiveness of a Government-Organized and Hospital-Initiated Treatment for Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patients-A Retrospective Cohort Study

• Pei-Chun Chan ,

  * E-mail: pcanita.tw@cdc.gov.tw

  Affiliation Third Division, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Su-Hua Huang,

  Affiliation Third Division, Centers for Disease Control, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Ming-Chih Yu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Medical University-Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shih-Wei Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

  Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Tao-Yuan General Hospital, Department of Health, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan

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• Yi-Wen Huang ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

  Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Chang-Hua Hospital, Department of Health, Chang-Hua, Taiwan

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• Shun-Tien Chien ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

  Affiliation Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Chest Hospital, Department of Health, Tainan, Taiwan

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• Jen-Jyh Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ming-Chih Yu, Shih-Wei Lee, Yi-Wen Huang, Shun-Tien Chien, Jen-Jyh Lee

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital, Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan

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• and the TMTC

  ¶Members of the TMTC can be found in the acknowledgments.

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