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- IRMS - Nicolae Testemitanu SUMPh
- REVISTE MEDICALE NEINSTITUȚIONALE
- The Moldovan Medical Journal
- The Moldovan Medical Journal
- The Moldovan Medical Journal 2017
- The Moldovan Medical Journal, Vol. 60, No 2, April 2017
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Title: | Predictive factors associated to low tuberculosis treatment outcome: cross sectional study |
Authors: | Lesnic, Evelina Niguleanu, Adriana Ciobanu, Serghei Todoriko, Liliya |
Keywords: | tuberculosis;risk factors |
Issue Date: | 2017 |
Publisher: | The Scientific Medical Association of the Republic of Moldova |
Citation: | LESNIC, Evelina, NIGULEANU, Adriana, CIOBANU, Serghei, TODORIKO, Liliya. Predictive factors associated to low tuberculosis treatment outcome: cross sectional study. In: The Moldovan Medical Journal. 2017, vol. 60, no 2, pp. 7-12. ISSN 2537-6373. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.1050982 |
Abstract: | Background: The standard treatment for new case of drug-susceptible tuberculosis according to WHO recommendations in the Republic of Moldova has
been performed since 2000 and must achieve a treatment success rate of at least 85%. Actually the treatment success rate has increased due to excluding
of MDR-TB patients from the general cohort. The major rate of patients with low outcome is represented by died and lost to follow-up cases (drop out).
Material and methods: A retrospective selective, descriptive study targeting social, demographic, economic and epidemiological peculiarities, casemanagement,
radiological aspects diagnosis and microbiological characteristics of 154 patients with pulmonary tuberculosis was performed.
Results: It was established that the major risk factors for loss of follow-up were: low educational level, homelessness, history of detention, migration
and delayed patient’s direct addressing the specialized hospital services. The major risk factors for death were: low educational level, homelessness and
other ways of detection (detection by civic organizations, during specialized consultations in other somatic hospitals) as a result of the unemployment
and lack of health insurance.
Conclusions: Raising awareness among high risk patients and their families about tuberculosis, emphasizing that the diagnosis and treatment are free
of charge and independent regarding their social and economical status will improve disease outcome. |
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: | The Moldovan Medical Journal |
URI: | http://moldmedjournal.md/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/MMJ-60-2-DOI-UDC.pdf http://repository.usmf.md/handle/20.500.12710/2713 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1050982 |
ISSN: | 2537-6373 2537-6381 |
Appears in Collections: | The Moldovan Medical Journal, Vol. 60, No 2, April 2017
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