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Predictors of mortality among TB-HIV co-infected children attending anti-retroviral therapy clinics of selected public hospitals in southern, Ethiopia: retrospective cohort study

Crossref DOI link: https://doi.org/10.1186/s13690-021-00713-1

Published Online: 2022-01-04

Published Print: 2022-12

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Authors

Gemechu, Jifare

Gebremichael, Bereket

Tesfaye, Tewodros

Seyum, Alula

Erkalo, Desta https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5981-439X
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Article History

Received: 13 July 2021

Accepted: 17 October 2021

First Online: 4 January 2022

Declarations

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: Ethical approval was obtained from Institutional Review board of Addis Ababa University, College of Health sciences, School of Nursing and Midwifery. Permission to conduct the study was acquired from Zonal and District Health offices. A formal letter was submitted to the respective hospitals. Since the study was done through reviewing of medical records, the individual patients may not be harmed as long as the confidentiality is kept. Confidentiality was kept by coding all the collected data. Moreover, the charts were locked in a separate room before it was entered in to the computer. After entering the data, the computer was locked by password. Names and unique ART numbers were not included in data collection format and the data were not disclosed to any person other than principal investigator. All information collected from patients’ cards was kept strictly confidential and names of patients on ART were not included in the checklist.

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: All Authors declare that they have no competing interest.

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