Treatment Initiation among Patients with Multidrug Resistant Tuberculosis in Bhopal District, India

• 作者: Ajay M. V. Kumar Akash Ranjan Singh Arun M. Kokane Hemant Deepak Shewade Malik Parmar Manoj Tiwari Manoj Verma Mukesh Nagar Pradeep Kumar Mehra Sanjai Kumar Singh Sanjay Singh Chahar Sheeba Naz Khan
• 来源期刊: 结核病研究(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS Operational Research Pre-Treatment Attrition Diagnosis and TREATMENT Pathway Initial Loss to FOLLOW-UP
• 年，卷（期）: 2017,（4）
• 页码范围: 237-242
• 页数: 6页
• 分类号: R5

摘要

Revised national tuberculosis control programme in India has limited co-hort-wise information about what happens to patients diagnosed with multidrug resistant TB (MDR-TB). We determined the pre-treatment loss to follow-up (non-initiation of treatment by programme within 6 months of diagnosis) and time from diagnosis to treatment initiation in Bhopal district, central India (2014). Pre-treatment loss to follow-up was 13% (0.95 CI: 7%, 23%), not significantly different from the national estimates (18%) and median time to initiate treatment was seven days, lower than that reported elsewhere in the country. Bhopal was performing well with reference to time to treatment initiation in programmatic settings.