The proportion of patients with short duration cough (2-3 weeks) among newly detected smear-positive pulmonary TB patients; the yield of strategic change in the case detection of revised national tuberculosis control programme in an urban community setting of South India

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 239
Author(s):  
ThekkumkaraSurendran Nair Anish ◽  
Vijayakumar Karthik ◽  
TeenaMary Joy ◽  
SujinaCheraparambil Muthukkutty ◽  
Krishnapillai Vijayakumar
Keyword(s):  
South India ◽  
Strategic Change ◽  
Community Setting ◽  
Control Programme ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Pulmonary Tb ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control Programme ◽  
Tuberculosis Control Programme ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control

scholarly journals Management of pulmonary tuberculosis in private health sector: is it according to revised national tuberculosis control programme guidelines?

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 759
Author(s):  
Ram Gopal Nautiyal ◽  
Rajesh Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Health Sector ◽  
Control Programme ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
Pulmonary Tb ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control Programme ◽  
Tuberculosis Control Programme ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
Private Health Sector ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control

Background: As private sector is dominant tuberculosis (TB) care provider in India, to realize the vision of TB free India, it is crucial that public and private sector follow uniform standard of TB care. This can be achieved when private health sector adopts TB management methodology of Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) of India. The present study was conducted to estimate whether or not TB management practices of allopathic private practitioners (PPs) conform to RNTCP guidelines by assessment of their knowledge and practice about new pulmonary TB (PTB).Methods: A cross-sectional study conducted using a semi-structured questionnaire among PPs practicing in urban areas of five of the six districts of Kumaon Division of Uttarakhand State of India between October 2013 to November 2014.Results: Of 71 PPs included in the study, almost 66% did not suspect pulmonary TB unless cough was associated with other symptoms. For diagnosis and follow up, sputum AFB microscopy alone was used by only 10% and 8.4% PPs respectively. Of the 71 PPs, 67 PPs who prescribed treatment for new PTB, used 20 diverse anti-TB regimens, and 10.5% of them included levofloxacin in the regimen.Conclusions: Majority PPs didn’t follow the RNTCP’s TB management guidelines for new PTB. 

scholarly journals Five-years experiences of the revised national tuberculosis control programme in northern part of Kolkata, India

Lung India ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sudipta Pandit ◽  
Atin Dey ◽  
ArunabhaDatta Chaudhuri ◽  
Mita Saha ◽  
Amitava Sengupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Control Programme ◽  
Tuberculosis Control ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control Programme ◽  
Tuberculosis Control Programme ◽  
National Tuberculosis ◽  
National Tuberculosis Control
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