Associated factors for treatment delay in pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-infected individuals: a nested case-control study docx

... services before the onset of cough. A study case was defined as a patient who presented a delay in initiating treatment and a control as a patient who did not present a delay in initiating treatment. For ... two stages. In the first, a multivariate regression analysis was undertaken in each group, starting with a minimal model and adding one variable at a...

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... data collection and analysis and helped to draft the manuscript. YPZ participated in the data collection, analysis and made critical revision to the paper. All authors read and approved the final ... postgraduate study or going abroad. But, I am behind in my study and can not do anything. I am so worried.' (Female, 22 years old, intensive phase, inpatient) 'Since I was abs...

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... and, in some settings, chest radiography, sputum smear and culture as part of annual physical examinations, workplace screening, antenatal clinics and HIV care clinics, and at prison intake and ... made. PHYSICAL EXAMINATION Physical examination of an individual with pulmonary TB is usu ally non specific. Classic findings are pallor, cachexia, tachycardia and post tussive crackles over af...

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... Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Abdullah A. Alshimemeri, Yaseen M. Arabi, Hamdan Al-Jahdali, Ashwaq Olayan, and Othman Al Harbi) and Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Ziad Memish) Address ... disease awareness. King Fahad National Guard Hospital is an 800-bed tertiary care hospital located in the central region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), provides multilevel heal...

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... diagnosing and treating adult smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in high-HIV-prevalence settings in sub-Saharan Africa. Bull World Health Organ 1998; 76: 651–62. 4 Hargreaves NJ, Kadzakumanja ... notifi cation and treatment outcome data for cases of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis. Such data should be used to inform policy makers and boost programme performance bo...

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... clinical and radiological presentations are often nonspecific, leading to a delay in diagnosis and in initiating appropriate treatment, which often results in a significant proportion of cases being ... The study was cleared by the ethics committee of the Institute. Informed consent was taken for each subject. Statistical Analysis Quantitative and qualitative data are express...

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... PRO-2007/ 10198). Author Details 1 Aklilu Lemma Institute of Pathobiology, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ... analysis and interpretation. DS participated in data analysis, interpretation and write-up. GB involved in study design and critically revised the manuscript. FA involved in st...

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... Changhua Christain Hospital. All the data is decoding and managed in compliance with the Helsinki Declaration and no any patient's personal data were involved. Setting of the study The Changhua ... Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Changhua Christian Hospital, 135 Nanshiao Road, Changhua, Taiwan Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Lin et a...

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