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The MODS method for diagnosis of tuberculosis and multidrug resistant tuberculosis
Published on: August 11, 2008
[Systematic assessment on the improvement of tuberculosis case detection through general hospital-based tuberculosis
Xiao-Mei Wang1, Jian-Jun Liu, Hong-Yan Yao
1Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100083, China.
Objective:
To evaluate the reporting and transferring system for tuberculosis (TB) patients carried out by city General Hospitals & township clinics in the last 10 years in China.
Methods:
Systematic review and Meta-analysis were carried out.
Results:
After 5 years of follow-up on the outcomes of intervention, it was found that both the rates of newly registered smear positivity and the new case registration on smear positivity had significantly been increasing during the last five years and the scale of increase was growing annually during the first three years. However, the scale of increase started to decline on the fourth year. The combined RR on the failure of transfer rate was 0.36 (95% CI: 0.25 - 0.53).
Conclusion:
The integrated outcomes showed that the ongoing reporting and transferring system in general hospital was benefit for TB case detection.
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