Analysis of tuberculosis treatment outcomes among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

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Analysis of tuberculosis treatment outcomes among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Bahawalpur, Pakistan.

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ObjectiveMonitoring tuberculosis treatment outcomes and understanding the reasons for unsuccessful treatment are important indicators for evaluating the performance of the national tuberculosis control program. The aim of this study was to evaluate the treatment outcomes among pulmonary TB (PTB) patients and identify the predictors of unsuccessful treatment outcome.ResultsTreatment success rate of 67.8% among new and retreatment PTB patients and 69% in new smear positive PTB patients was obse...

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Journal article

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2018-06

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Atif, Muhammad / Anwar, Zainab / Fatima, Razia Kaneez / Malik, Iram / Asghar, Saima / Scahill, Shane

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https://hdl.handle.net/2292/65282

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Humans / Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Treatment Outcome / Logistic Models / Demography / Adolescent / Adult / Aged / Middle Aged / Child / Child, Preschool / Infant / Infant, Newborn / Pakistan / Female / Male / Young Adult / High TB burden countries / New smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis / Pulmonary tuberculosis / Treatment outcomes / Unsuccessful treatment outcome / 32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences / 3202 Clinical Sciences / Infectious Diseases / Clinical Research / Tuberculosis / Rare Diseases / Lung / Infection / 3 Good Health and Well Being / 1103 Clinical Sciences / Clinical / Clinical Medicine and Science / 0601 Biochemistry and Cell Biology / 1199 Other Medical and Health Sciences

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