Loss to follow-up in anti-HCV-positive patients in a Brazilian regional outpatient clinic

Loss to follow-up (LF), which refers to patients who started care but voluntary stopped it, is a problem for patients with chronic disease. We aimed to estimate the rate of LF among patients seropositive for hepatitis C virus (HCV) and identify possible demographic and lifestyle risk factors associa...

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Main Authors: L.C. Mendes, S.M. Ralla, A.G. Vigani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica 2016-01-01
Series:Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X2016001000702&lng=en&tlng=en