[PDF] Top 20 Diagnostic Delay in Pulmonary Tuberculosis: A Cross Sectional study

... Infection of organs other than lungs i.e lymph nodes, bones, pleura, abdominal organs, nervous system, genito-urinary tract, is termed as extra- pulmonary tuberculosis. Infection of an individual does not ... See full document

... effective tuberculosis (TB) control program. Delay in diagnosis is significant to both disease prognosis at the individual level and transmission within the ...of Tuberculosis Patient. 2. To document ... See full document

... based cross-sectional study was conducted among bus users at Addis ...of pulmonary tuberculosis prevention among city bus users in the study area was ... See full document

... Among Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients in West Tripura: A Cross Sectional ...Introduction: Tuberculosis is associated with various socioeconomic factors such as poverty, poor housing and ... See full document

... regarding tuberculosis (TB) in prisons in ...present study was to estimate the prevalence of pulmonary tuberculosis in prisons and assess associated risk factors among inmates suspected for ... See full document

... to pulmonary TB cases with known HIV ...766 study participants) and cavi- tation (among a subset of 310 study participants) as the outcome ... See full document

... inappropriate diagnostic investigations requested by health care providers, and limited diagnostic capacities at health care facilities (HCFs) [3, ... See full document

... included: sex, age, residence, marital status, education level, family average annual income per capita, family living area per capita, tobacco use, drinking history, diabetes, close contacts, previous TB cases, and ... See full document

... In Uganda, the estimated overall tuberculosis (TB) inci- dence is 330 cases per 100,000 population and ranks 16 th among the 22 high-burden countries for TB [1]. The Uganda TB treatment success (68%) is far from ... See full document

... the study were recruited from the TB Unit as they initiated treatment or came back for their drug ...The study excluded clients that were too ill to ...ous study on TB diagnosis delay in ... See full document

... There were a total of 501 participants in the study (Fig. 1). Males constituted 60.5 % (303/501) of the study participants. More than 60 % (326/501) of participants were aged 40 years or younger. Majority ... See full document

... the study were in pilgrims from Afghanistan and none were from South ...the study, Afghanistan has the lowest TB burden and South Afri- can has nearly ... See full document

... This study also indicated that the prevalence of smear positive PTB was significantly higher in HIV positive pa- tients than ...tive pulmonary tuberculosis ... See full document

... The 2014–2020 Ethiopia National TB Strategic Plan (NSP) emphasizes the need to improve access to quality TB, TB/HIV and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) ser- vices in order to curb transmission and reduce the dis- ease ... See full document

... Unacceptable delay for initiation of TB treatment was higher among residents in the rural area in south ...this study were from the rural parts of south ...present study, inquiries made by ... See full document

... The main outcome variable was current cancer-related distress, measured by the Revised Impact of Events Scale (IES-R) [27] which has three subscales: intrusion, avoidance, and hyperarousal, as well as a total score. The ... See full document

... Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest human diseases, yet it still cannot be defeated and remains second only to HIV as a leading cause of death from infectious dis- eases worldwide. In 2012, there were an ... See full document

... socio-demographics, major presenting symptoms of PTB, duration of major presenting symptoms and the date of first health care visit for each enrollee. The major pulmo- nary symptoms asked were presence of cough for more ... See full document

... one study reported that healthy individ- uals were most likely to cite financial reward as their motivation, whereas patients would participate after being invited by their treating physician ...qualitative ... See full document

... The study was conducted at a large primary care clinic in Cape Town, South Africa, from November 2002 to December ...the study nurse from among patients pre- senting to the triage nurse in the waiting room ... See full document