TY - JOUR
KW - Adolescent
KW - Adult
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Retrospective Studies
KW - Risk Factors
KW - Treatment Refusal
AU - Myint T
AU - Htoon M T
AU - Win M
AU - Yin C
AB - <p>A total of 884 registered cases from the city of Yangon were retrospectively analysed. The defaulter proportion among cases registered for treatment at the Thaketa Health Centre was 34.16%. It was established that patient sex and occupation are not a factor in defaulting. Paucibacillary cases and cases with no disability are more likely to default.</p>
BT - Leprosy review
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1479874?dopt=Abstract
CN - Infolep Library - available
DA - 1992 Dec
DO - 10.5935/0305-7518.19920041
IS - 4
J2 - Lepr Rev
LA - eng
N2 - <p>A total of 884 registered cases from the city of Yangon were retrospectively analysed. The defaulter proportion among cases registered for treatment at the Thaketa Health Centre was 34.16%. It was established that patient sex and occupation are not a factor in defaulting. Paucibacillary cases and cases with no disability are more likely to default.</p>
PY - 1992
SP - 345
EP - 9
T2 - Leprosy review
TI - Risk factors among defaulters in the urban leprosy control centre of Thaketa Township in the city of Yangon, Myanmar, 1986.
UR - http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1992/v63n4/pdf/v63n4a06.pdf
VL - 63
SN - 0305-7518
ER -