Predictors of treatment failure among pulmonary tuberculosis

Predictors of treatment failure among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Mulago hospital, Uganda ppt

... needed in developing nations. The study set out to describe affordable predictors of TB treatment failure in an African setting. Objective: To determine the predictors of treatment failure among patients ... important predictors of treatment failure from previous studies. We used a level of poor adherence among treatment failure patients of 40% and...

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Prevalence of presumed ocular tuberculosis among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in a tertiary hospital in the Philippines pdf

... studies include rates of ocular in- volvement among patients with pulmonary TB (PTB). Donahue in 1967 reported a prevalence of ocular TB of 1.46% in 10,524 patients from a tuberculosis sanitarium in ... objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of presumed ocular tuberculosis among diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis patients in a tertiary go...

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Predictors of relapse among pulmonary tuberculosis patients treated in a DOTS programme in South India pot

... TRC laboratory records. In addition, trained health workers interviewed patients within a week of starting treatment using a pre-coded inter- view schedule to elicit information on their socio- demographic ... role of corticosteroids in the treatment of sputum positive patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in south India. Tubercle 1983; 64: 73–91. 19 Tuberculosis Re...

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Treatment outcome of smear-positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Tigray Region, Northern Ethiopia pptx

... outcome – if treatment of PTB patients resulted in treatment failure (i.e., remaining smear-positive after 5 months of treatment) , default (i.e., patients who interrupted their treatment for two ... R: Standardized tuberculosis treatment outcome monitoring in Europe. Recommendations of a Working Group of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Region...

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Feasibility, reliability and validity of health-related quality of life questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: cross-sectional study docx

... analyses The feasibility of conducting quality of life interviews among TB patients using the MOS in urban Uganda setting was evaluated by examining the percent of miss- ing item responses, interviewer-reported ... hospitals. Identification of TB patients in both treatment centers is by passive case-finding as recommended by the Uganda National Tuberculosis and Lepro...

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Low Occurrence of Tuberculosis Drug Resistance among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients froman Urban Setting, with a Long-Running DOTS Programin Zambia docx

... been suggested, including ir regular drug intake, inadequate treatment of prior TB episode, prior history of TB, and prior use of rifamycins and rifabutin in treatment of T B and other bacterial infections ... volunteers and treatment supporters in their TB programme to assist in ensuring patients complete treatment, as evidenced by their relatively high treatment suc...

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Management of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an urban setting in Zambia: a patient’s perspective ppt

... sputum re-examina- tion at the end of the patient’s treatment is a much stronger indicator of treatment success than ‘ treatment completion. Further, data in one of our studies in this population, ... Belgium. 4 Ministry of Health, National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program, Lusaka, Zambia. 5 Tuberculosis Research Section, Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Nat...

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Deficiency of Micronutrient Status in Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in North India docx

... higher in patients than in controls. Low concentrations of serum retinol can be due to a number of factors, including reduced intake or reduced absorption of fat. In addition, the infection ... The prevalence of low concentrations of serum retinol and zinc was significantly higher in patients than in controls. The low concentrations of haemoglobin and serum re...

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Tài liệu Oral health behaviour, conditions and care among dentate elderly patients in Lithuania: preventive aspects pptx

... 1990). Adults, including the elderly, in Finland and the UK have pointed out that oral hygiene instructions comprise a very minor proportion of their routine dental treatments (Suominen- Taipale ... Medicine of the University of Helsinki, for public discussion in the main auditorium of the Institute of Dentistry, Mannerheimintie 172, Helsinki, on 11 December, 2009 at noon....

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Prevalence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis among Category II pulmonary tuberculosis patients pot

... bacilli showing resistance to at least isoniazid and rifampicin. Results: A total of 196 cases of sputum-positive category II pulmonary tuberculosis patients were included. Of these, 40 patients ... streptomycin. The prevalence of MDR-TB among category-II pulmonary tuberculosis patients was 20.4 per cent. Interpretation & conclusions: The prevalence of MDR-TB...

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