"Lost to Follow-Up" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Study subjects in COHORT STUDIES whose outcomes are unknown e.g., because they could not or did not wish to attend follow-up visits.(from Dictionary of Epidemiology, 5th ed.)
| Descriptor ID |
D059012
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E05.318.780.438
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| Concept/Terms |
Lost to Follow-Up- Lost to Follow-Up
- Follow-Up, Lost to
- Lost to Follow Up
- Lost to Follow-Ups
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Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Lost to Follow-Up".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Lost to Follow-Up".
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 4 | 22 | 26 |
| 2018 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2019 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Lost to Follow-Up" by people in Profiles.
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Case Report: Extrapulmonary Manifestations of COVID-19 and Dengue Coinfection. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2021 Jun 28; 105(2):363-367.
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Optimising Hand Surgery during COVID-19 Pandemic. J Hand Surg Asian Pac Vol. 2021 Mar; 26(1):84-91.
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Dematiaceous Fungal Colonization of the Bandage Contact Lens in a Patient Lost to Follow-up During the COVID-19 Crisis. Eye Contact Lens. 2020 Nov; 46(6):e66-e68.
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Analysis of loss to follow-up in 4099 multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis patients. Eur Respir J. 2019 07; 54(1).
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Disengagement and reengagement of HIV continuum of care in a single center cohort in northern Italy. HIV Res Clin Pract. 2019 02; 20(1):1-11.
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Factors associated with unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Lusaka, Zambia, 2015: a secondary analysis of routine surveillance data. Pan Afr Med J. 2019; 32:159.
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New TB Tools Need to be Affordable in the Private Sector: The Case Study of Xpert MTB/RIF. J Epidemiol Glob Health. 2018 12; 8(3-4):103-105.
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Treating loss-to-follow-up as a missing data problem: a case study using a longitudinal cohort of HIV-infected patients in Haiti. BMC Public Health. 2018 Nov 19; 18(1):1269.
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The problem of lost to follow-up of mother-child pairs enrolled in the PMTCT program in Dschang District Hospital-Cameroon. Ig Sanita Pubbl. 2018 Jul-Aug; 74(4):337-347.
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Socioeconomic position and ten-year survival and virologic outcomes in a Ugandan HIV cohort receiving antiretroviral therapy. PLoS One. 2017; 12(12):e0189055.