Are tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care hospital in hyderabad, india being managed according to national guidelines?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Kondapaka, Kiran Kumar ^a   Prasad, Surapaneni Venkateswara ^a   Satyanarayana, Srinath ^b   Kandi, Subhakar ^a   Zachariah, Rony ^c   David Harries, Anthonyvid ^b,d   Nagaraja, Sharath Burugina ^e   Tetali, Shailaja ^f   Anchala, Raghupathy ^f   Kannuri, Nanda Kishore ^f   Murthy, Krishna ^g   Koppu, Dhanamurthy ^a   Vangari, Latha ^a   Rao, Sreenivas ^h  

^a OSMANIA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b INTERNATIONAL UNION AGAINST TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASE   (France)

^c MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES   (Belgium)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^e Office of the WHO Representative in India   (India)

^f PUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION OF INDIA   (India)

^g GANDHI MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^h State Tuberculosis Office   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; ETHAMBUTOL; ETHIONAMIDE; ISONIAZID; KANAMYCIN; LEVOFLOXACIN; PYRAZINAMIDE; RIFAMPICIN; STREPTOMYCIN; TUBERCULOSTATIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EXTRAPULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INDIA; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIDRUG RESISTANT TUBERCULOSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TUBERCULOSIS; GENERAL HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INDIA; INPATIENTS; NATIONAL HEALTH PROGRAMS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS, MULTIDRUG-RESISTANT;

EID: 84855878383     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030281     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. World Health Organisation, Geneva (2010) WHO Report on Global Tuberculosis Control: Epidemiology, Strategy, Financing World Health Organisation, Geneva; 2010.
2. Central Tuberculosis Division (2005) Technical and Operational Guidelines for Tuberculosis Control, Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme. Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India. 2005.
3. Central Tuberculosis Division (2010) Tuberculosis India 2010. Annual Report of the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme. Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
4. World Health Organisation, Geneva (2003) Treatment of Tuberculosis. Guidelines for National Programmes. 3rd Edition.
5. World Health Organisation, Geneva (2009) Key bottlenecks in M/XDR-TB control and patient care. Available: http://www.who.int/tb/challenges/mdr/bottlenecks/en/index.html. Accessed 2011 April 5.
6. World Health Organisation Geneva (2010) Multidrug and extensively drug-resistant TB (M/XDR-TB). Global Report on Surveillance and Response (WHO/HTM/TB/2010.3).
7. Harlow T, (1999) TB net tracking network provides continuity of care for mobile TB patients. Am J Public Health Oct;89 (10): 1581-2.
8. von EE, Altman DG, Egger M, Pocock SJ, Gotzsche PC, et al. (2007) The Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) statement: guidelines for reporting observational studies. Lancet Oct 20;370 (9596): 1453-7.