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

... RESEARC H ARTIC LE Open Access Management of pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an urban setting in Zambia: a patient’s perspective Chanda Mulenga 1,2* , David Mwakazanga 1 , Kim Vereecken 3 , ... 50% ±10%, at a confidence interval of 95%, and non-response level of 10%, and therefore estimated a sample size of 105 as sufficient. Data collection, manageme...

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... ours. An increase in sensitivity can be misleading as it may be accompanied by a decrease in the true positivity, and an increase in the relative number of false positives. This can be explained ... medium in the detection of AFB in sputum samples of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis in tertiary healthcare facilities which have a large number of cases...

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... and well being of TB patients so that individual patient specific needs are addressed to attain the best clinical or treatment outcome, and thus increasing the likelihood of adequa te case management ... hospital setting and patient category. A p-value of less than 0.05 was considered statistically significant. All analysis was performed using SAS software version 9.2 (SAS Insti...

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... 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 al. BMC ... 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 Christian Hospital...

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... standardised principles of management; and that only with standardised principles of management can results in various series and in various countries be compared to best advantage and the knowledge ... was invari- ably fatal within a few months and always in less than a year, while the second was usually of several years’ duration, ending in an acute phase lasting s...

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... Director of Tuberculosis, Deputy Director of Health Services and all Medical Of cers. Authors are thankful to S Radhakrishnan (STS), Abdul Kudoos, R Sasidharan, L K Acharya and S Arjunan of the ... and L Ranganathan of the EDP department for supplying the data output. The secretarial assis- tance rendered by A Gopinathan is also acknowledged. This report was funded in part by a...

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... collection of data, analysis and interpretation of results and writing of the manuscript and as corresponding author. FE contributed to interpretation of the data and writing of the manuscript. AA has ... study stated that an age in excess of 46 years was found to be a significant risk factor for non-successful treatment outcome [27 ]. Another study in Thailand showed that...

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... patients were diagnosed globally in 2007, and around 80% of them live in sub-Saharan Africa [11]. Tuberculosis and HIV co-infections are associated with special diagnostic and therapeutic challenges ... for patients having sputum production and clinical manifes- tations and interpreted. All patients having sputum pro- duction and clinical manifestations provided 3 sputum samples...

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... uveitis cases. It has bee n estimated to be under 1% in the USA, 4% in China, 6% in Italy, 7% in Japan, and 16% in Saudi Arabia [10]. A Southeast Asian neighbor, Thailand, reported a 2.2% systemic ... tuberculosis and found ocu- lar involvement in 18 patients (18%) [7]. In Malawi, Africa, a 2.8% prevalence of choroidal granuloma in 109 patients with fever and tu...

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