TREATMENT OUTCOMES OF TUBERCULOSIS AT TB/DOTS UNIT OF TERTIARY CARE CENTRE
Journal Title: Mintage journal of pharmaceutical and medical sciences - Year 2016, Vol 5, Issue 5
Abstract
Background: Countrywide revised national tuberculosis control programmes, is among mega ventures, needing feedback on practical success at the peripheral level. Objective: Treatment outcome profile at medical college bases DOTs centre with simultaneous consideration of epidemiological factors was attempted to be appraised. Method: A retrospective investigation of records of 73 tuberculosis patients without HIV coinfection, managed at TB/DOTS clinic in a medical college in central India is reported. The treatment outcome in patients is analyzed with reference to demographic characteristics and disease profile in patients. Results: on-HIV tuberculosis appears to be satisfactorily addressed at TB/DOTS care. Male gender was found to associate negative trait and relatively poor outcome than the female patients. Other studied parameters did not exhibit influence on treatment success, whatsoever. Conclusion: Findings emphasize the primacy of perspectives left out consideration in the study. Studies on antitubercular therapy outcomes in HIV coinfected patients, as well as patients not well tolerating the therapy may be warranted, along with better support for advanced laboratory investigation in problem cases
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abha pandit
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