Estimating post-treatment recurrence after multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment among patients with and without HIV: the impact of assumptions about death and missing follow-up.
Sara M SauerCarole D MitnickUzma KhanCatherine HewisonMathieu BastardDavid HoltzmanStephanie LawMunira KhanShrivani PadayacheeSaman AhmedAfshan K IsaniAga KrisnandaStalz Charles VilbrunSagit BektasovAndargachew KumsaWisney DocteurKaren TintayaMark McNicolHakob AtshemyanTatiana VoyniloThin Thin ThweKwonjune SeungMichael RichHelena HuergaPalwasha KhanMolly FrankePublished in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)
The estimated six-month TB recurrence risk was low, and the association with HIV status was inconclusive due to few recurrence events. Estimation of post-treatment recurrence will be enhanced by explicit assumptions about deaths and appropriate adjustment for missing follow-up data.