Costs associated with tuberculosis control programs at hospitals caring for children

1999 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 604-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
SCOTT KELLERMAN ◽  
LISA SAIMAN ◽  
MILAGROS SOTO-IRIZARRY ◽  
PABLO SAN GABRIEL ◽  
CATHERINE A. LARSEN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Control Programs

scholarly journals Directly Observed Treatment: planning perspectives, improvisation and transfer of policy

2018 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 1940-1948
Author(s):  
Rarianne Carvalho Peruhype ◽  
Simone Gomes Costa ◽  
Juliana Feliciati Hoffmann ◽  
Karen Bissell ◽  
Fernando Mitano ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Planning Process ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Operational Planning ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Political Will ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Directly Observed Treatment ◽  
Contextual Change

ABSTRACT Objective: to investigate the possibilities of positive and negative association of improvisation and the understanding of what will be the planning by managers and coordinators of tuberculosis control programs, in a context of transference of the Directly Observed Treatment policy. Method: this is a qualitative study, developed through semi-structured interviews analyzed in the light of French Discourse Analysis. Results: there was a weakening of the constructive and operational planning process, which is at the mercy of political will and the need of putting out fires. This, in turn, along with achômetro (Brazilian popular expression used on unsubstantiated point of view or opinion that is based solely and exclusively on the intuition of the person who says it), composed the metaphor of improvisation in its negative perspective, understood by automatism and unsystematization process. Improvisation, however, emerged as a representation of innovation, creativity, and contextual change. Final considerations: both the planning and the transfer of public policies constitute processes that need to be strengthened and qualified in the field of public health.

scholarly journals IN2 COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES FOR TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL PROGRAMS IN THAILAND

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. A504-A505 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Hunchangsith ◽  
JJ Barendregt ◽  
T Vos ◽  
M Bertram
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Control Programs

scholarly journals Evaluation the Pulmonary Tuberculosis Control Program with Strategy DOTS in Puskesmas Tanah Kalikedinding Surabaya

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Adistha Eka Noveyani ◽  
Santi Martini
Keyword(s):  
Pulmonary Tuberculosis ◽  
Health Center ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Tuberculosis Patient ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Inhibiting Factor ◽  
Rate Evaluation ◽  
Almost All

ABSTRACTStrategy DOTS is the tuberculosis control programs. The program has implemented in Tanah Kalikedinding Health Center and has expected to reach CDR ≥ 70% and SR ≥ 85%, which closely related to the management of health centers. This study aimed to evaluate the implementation of the DOTS program in health center whose the results associated with indicators of tuberculosis. This was a descriptive design study with the population was all pulmonary specialist, tuberculosis officers and laboratory personnel and pulmonary tuberculosis patients. The number of Tuberculosis patient respondents was 32 respondents. Samples were chosen using purposive sampling. Data collected by interview questionnaire and checklist. The variables were the finding case, the TB treatment, the enabling factor and inhibiting factor, recording and reporting, and result of tuberculosis indicators. This study resulted that CDR in 2013 was 112% already reached the national target ≥ 70%. This success related to the finding case almost all patients > 2 weeks of cought and all (100%) patients were examinated sputum and diagnosed according to the steps of tuberculosis diagnosis in Indonesia Department of Health guidelines. While SR in 2013 was 65.5% did not reach the target ≥ 85%. It was caused of there are patients who did not have a taking drug observer (PMO). All (100%) patients ever forgot taking anti tuberculosis drugs. Change in schedule of visit to the continuation phase be 2×/month caused patients to forget taking anti tuberculosis drugs. The enabling factor was counseling routinely by health care workers in health center. Inhibiting factor was distance to health center by majority (65,5%) patients were > 1 km. So they needed vehicle to go to the health center. Recording and reporting using electronic systems and being reported by online. So it is expected all TB patients were expected have a taking drug observer and optimizing the role of the a taking drug observer to increase success rate.Keywords: DOTS strategy, Case Detection Rate, Success Rate, evaluation,                     Tuberculosis

A Survey of Tuberculosis Control Programs in Seventeen Minnesota Hospitals: Authors' note

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 287
Author(s):  
Nancy Van Drunen ◽  
Gloria Bonnicksen ◽  
A.Jeanne Pfeiffer
Keyword(s):  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Control Programs

Mining Tuberculosis Data

2011 ◽  
pp. 332-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marisa A. Sánchez ◽  
Sonia Uremovich ◽  
Pablo Acrogliano
Keyword(s):  
Diagnostic Category ◽  
Health Care Facilities ◽  
Diagnostic Methods ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Therapy Strategy ◽  
Mining Project ◽  
Care Facilities ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter reviews the current policies of tuberculosis control programs for the diagnosis of tuberculosis. The international standard for tuberculosis control is the World Health Organization’s DOT (Direct Observation of Therapy) strategy that aims to reduce the transmission of the infection through prompt diagnosis and effective treatment of symptomatic tuberculosis patients who present at health care facilities. Physicians are concerned about the poor specificity of diagnostic methods and the increase in the notification of relapse cases. This works describes a data-mining project that uses DOT´s data to analyze the relationship among different variables and the tuberculosis diagnostic category registered for each patient.

scholarly journals Clinical and Diagnostic Developments of a Gamma Interferon Release Assay for Use in Bovine Tuberculosis Control Programs

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1827-1835 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. E. Bass ◽  
B. J. Nonnecke ◽  
M. V. Palmer ◽  
T. C. Thacker ◽  
R. Hardegger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Bovine Tuberculosis ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Gamma Interferon ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Control Programs ◽  
Release Assay ◽  
Ifn Γ ◽  
First And Second Generation ◽  
And Control

ABSTRACTCurrently, the Bovigam assay is used as an official supplemental test within bovine tuberculosis control programs. The objectives of the present study were to evaluate twoMycobacterium bovis-specific peptide cocktails and purified protein derivatives (PPDs) from two sources, liquid and lyophilized antigen preparations. PPDs and peptide cocktails were also used for comparison of a second-generation gamma interferon (IFN-γ) release assay kit with the currently licensed first-generation kit (Bovigam; Prionics AG). Three strains ofM. boviswere used for experimental challenge:M. bovis95-1315,M. bovisRavenel, andM. bovis10-7428. Additionally, samples from a tuberculosis-affected herd (i.e., naturally infected) were evaluated. Robust responses to both peptide cocktails, HP (PC-HP) and ESAT-6/CFP10 (PC-EC), and the PPDs were elicited as early as 3 weeks after challenge. Only minor differences in responses to Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) and Lelystad PPDs were detected with samples from experimentally infected animals. For instance, responses to LelystadM. avium-derived PPD (PPDa) exceeded the respective responses to the CSL PPDa inM. bovisRavenel-infected and control animals. However, a 1:4 dilution of stimulated plasma demonstrated greater separation of PPDb from PPDa responses (i.e., PPDb minus PPDa) with the use of Lelystad PPDs, suggesting that Lelystad PPDs provide greater diagnostic sensitivity than CSL PPDs. The responses to lyophilized and liquid antigen preparations did not differ. Responses detected with first- and second-generation IFN-γ release assay kits (Bovigam) did not differ throughout the study. In conclusion, antigens may be stored in a lyophilized state without loss in potency, PC-HP and PC-EC are dependable biomarkers for aiding in the detection of bovine tuberculosis, and second-generation Bovigam kits are comparable to currently used kits.

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