Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes
A retrospective study on tuberculosis treatment outcomes at Jinka General Hospital, southern Ethiopia
... lower treatment success and this was in agreement with the findings reported in Ethiopia [10, 16, 19, 22] and in Malawi ...Low treatment success in males could be attributed to risk-taking behavior like use ...
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The impact of diabetes on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: A systematic review
... This study highlights the perils of using observational studies for a meta-analysis. Although meta-analyses of observational studies are frequently faulted for finding false statistically significant associations by ...
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Analysis of tuberculosis treatment outcomes among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Bahawalpur, Pakistan
... Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM, SPSS Statistics for Windows, ver- sion 21.0. Armonk, NY: IBM Corp.). Categorical vari- ables were analyzed using counts and proportions (%). ...
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Poor tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Southern Mozambique (2011–2012)
... The treatment success rate (which includes those cured or who completed treatment) in the district of Manhiça for the period 2011–2012 was ...(defaulting, treatment failure and transfer out cases ...
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Effects of financial incentives for treatment supporters on tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Swaziland: a pragmatic interventional study
... had treatment success in the intervention and control groups using a chi-squared test for Fisher’s exact test of inde- pendence, where ...incentivised treatment supporter on the success of treatment, ...
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Impact of alcohol disorder and the use of illicit drugs on tuberculosis treatment outcomes: a retrospective cohort study
... TB treatment, and the overall incidence of unsuccessful outcome was ...unsuccessful treatment outcome compared with patients not exposed to any of these ...unsuccessful treatment outcome were: male ...
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Second month sputum smear as a predictor of tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Brazil
... unfavourable outcomes, in the absence of a bet- ter predictor, we endorse the current recommendation to improve surveillance and perform culture and drug- susceptibility testing for patients with a positive second ...
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Mapping tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Ethiopia
... TB treatment outcomes was cal- culated by dividing the sum of death, treatment failure and lost to follow up by the total number of TB patients enrolled in the DOTS ...TB treatment ...
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Mapping Cases of Tuberculosis Distribution and Treatment Outcomes using Geographical Information System The Case of Birim Central Municipality, E/R Ghana
... of tuberculosis and treatment outcomes using choropleth maps (Colantonio et ...of tuberculosis in the study ...of tuberculosis (hot spots) and those with relatively lower risk as well ...
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Treatment outcomes of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the Netherlands, 2005–2015
... and treatment outcomes among DR-TB patients ...poorer tuberculosis treatment outcomes, while a review explained an opposite statement ...
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Treatment outcomes of MDR tuberculosis patients in Brazil: a retrospective cohort analysis
... eligible. Treatment outcomes were classified as successful (cure/treatment completed) or unsuccessful (failure/relapse/death/loss to ...successful treatment according to type of regimen were ...
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Rare presentation of intractable tuberculous panophthalmitis with intraocular and intraorbital abscesses: a case report
... pulmonary tuberculosis was initially treated with isoniazid 300 mg/day, rifampicin 450 mg/day, pyrazina- mide (unknown dosage), and ethambutol 800 mg/day for 2 ...
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Predictors of unsuccessful interim treatment outcomes of multidrug resistant tuberculosis patients
... MDR-TB treatment is usually in the duration of 18 to 20 months and at times ...final treatment outcomes can only be evaluated after two to three years of patient registration on the MDR-TB ...
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Treatment Supporters and Their Impact on Treatment Outcomes in Routine Tuberculosis Program Conditions in Rawalpindi District,Pakistan
... providing treatment support for the patients which is mainly carried out by the treatment supporters ...acceptable treatment supporter for the patient is the key to success for DOTS and is mandatory ...
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Factors affecting time to sputum culture conversion and treatment outcome of patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in China
... A few studies have shown that sputum culture con- version can be delayed in patients who have infecting isolates resistant to second line anti-TB drugs [6, 22, 23]. After adjustment for confounders, we found that par- ...
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Treatment outcomes and factors affecting unsuccessful outcome among new pulmonary smear positive and negative tuberculosis patients in Anqing, China: a retrospective study
... poor treatment outcome of TB are likely to vary depending on the local settings of popula- ...with treatment, supervised by health workers, living at study site, having higher income and receiving home ...
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Predictors and outcomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteremia among patients with HIV and tuberculosis co infection enrolled in the ACTG A5221 STRIDE study
... An asymptotic normal two-sample test was employed to evaluate the difference in failure proportions. Fisher’s exact and exact Wilcoxon tests were used to assess between-group differences. Based on the sample sizes and ...
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Treatment outcomes and risk factors of extra pulmonary tuberculosis in patients with co morbidities
... TB treatment. Completed TB treatment was defined as any patient who had completed a TB re- gime based on the Clinical Practice Guidelines created by Malaysia Ministry of Health ...
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The value of effective public tuberculosis treatment: an analysis of opportunity costs associated with multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Latvia
... utilization outcomes (number of hospital days, clinic visits, specialist visits, x-rays and c computed tomography (CT)) adjusting for vital status, sex, age, and cured ...
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Poor outcomes in recurrent tuberculosis: More than just drug resistance?
... cal outcomes consistently seen in patients who register for TB treatment having previously been ...for tuberculosis has set a target of 95% reduction in TB deaths by ...and treatment of ...
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