The Authors would like to thank all Regional Directors, District Health/Public Health Officers, Regional/District TB Leprosy Officers, Officers In-Charge of Treatment and Sub Treatment Centers and Niraj Tuladhar, Sandeep Chitrakar, Kamala Wagle, Sarmistha Shrestha for their invaluable contributions to this project and for supporting data collection for the analysis.
PK supported data collection for his programme and for all programmes via TEPHINET meetings where he was facilitator; he helped develop the final concept of the article and the final draft submitted to reviewers.
Third, business rules were drafted that allow tracking of patient journeys to support data collection and reporting for the CHOCIP data collection.
We thank all team members of the Macaca Nigra Project at Tangkoko for supporting data collection.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6831/13/41/prepub The authors thank Kaori Miura and Eri Igawa for supporting data collection.
The authors thank Susan Arendse, Els Nijenhuis, Stefan Kok and the physical therapy department of PW Janssen, Zorggroep Solis, Deventer for supporting data collection and recruitment of participants.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2296/11/13/prepub We are most grateful to the physicians and clinical laboratories that supported the data collection for this study.
The pre-publication history for this paper can be accessed here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-684X/10/20/prepub Jayne Wright supported data collection till 2009, Di Thompson was lead for public involvement in research till 2010 and thanks to all care home residents and staff.
BLH was the principle statistician for the study, supporting data collection and analysis, and making significant written and editorial inputs to later versions of the manuscript, especially the Methods, Results, and Discussion.
