Development of a clinical scoring system for the diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-132

  Soto, Alonso ^a,b   Solari, Lely ^b   Agapito, Juan ^b   Acuna Villaorduna, Carlos ^b   Lambert, Marie Laurence ^c   Gotuzzo, Eduardo ^d   Van der Stuyft, Patrick ^c  

^a Hospital Nacional Hipólito Unanue   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSIDAD PERUANA CAYETANO HEREDIA   (Peru)

^c INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN DE RECURSOS BIOLÓGICOS ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT   (Colombia)

Author keywords

Pulmonary; Regression analysis; Scoring methods; Tuberculosis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ACID FAST BACTERIUM; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMOPTYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG INFILTRATE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CULTURE; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 50949115348     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S1413-86702008000200006     Document Type: Article

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