“…Studies that reported on data from a single clinical site 21,22,26,29,31,33,35,40 had higher rates of pre-treatment loss to follow-up (range: 14-38%) than studies reporting on national or regional data (range: 4-25%). 10,[23][24][25]27,28,30,32,34,[36][37][38][39]41,42 In total, 10 studies 10,24,25,[30][31][32][33][34]38,40 attempted to trace tuberculosis patients with pre-treatment loss to follow-up (Table 4). One of them did not detail the tracing method used.…”