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| Title |
Loss-to-follow-up and delay to treatment initiation in Pakistan’s national tuberculosis control programme
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| Published in |
BMC Public Health, March 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12889-018-5222-2 |
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| Authors |
Syed Mustafa Ali, Farah Naureen, Arif Noor, Irum Fatima, Kerri Viney, Muhammad Ishaq, Naveed Anjum, Aamna Rashid, Ghulam Rasool Haider, Muhammad Aamir Khan, Javariya Aamir |
| Abstract |
Researchers and policy-makers have identified loss to follow-up as a major programmatic problem. Therefore, the objective of this study is to quantify TB related pre-treatment loss to follow up and treatment delay in private sector health care facilities in Pakistan. This was a retrospective, descriptive cohort study using routinely collected programmatic data from TB referral, diagnosis and treatment registers. Data from 48 private healthcare facilities were collected using an online questionnaire prepared in ODK Collect, for the period October 2015 to March 2016. Data were analysed using SPSS. We calculated the: (1) number and proportion of patients who were lost to follow-up during the diagnostic period, (2) number and proportion of patients with pre-treatment loss to follow-up, and (3) the number of days between diagnosis and initiation of treatment. One thousand five hundred ninety-six persons with presumptive TB were referred to the laboratory. Of these, 96% (n = 1538) submitted an on-the-spot sputum sample. Of the 1538 people, 1462 (95%) people subsequently visited the laboratory to submit the early morning (i.e. the second) sample. Hence, loss to follow-up during the diagnostic process was 8% overall (n = 134). Of the 1462 people who submitted both sputum samples, 243 (17%) were diagnosed with sputum smear-positive pulmonary TB and 231 were registered for anti-TB treatment, hence, loss in the pre-treatment phase was 4.9% (n = 12). 152 persons with TB (66%) initiated TB treatment either on the day of TB diagnosis or the next day. A further 79 persons with TB (34%) commenced TB treatment within a mean time of 7 days (range 2 to 64 days). Concentrated efforts should be made by the National TB Control Programme to retain TB patients and innovative methods such as text reminders and behavior change communication may need to be used and tested. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 71 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 17 | 24% |
| Researcher | 10 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 6% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 6% |
| Other | 8 | 11% |
| Unknown | 23 | 32% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 17 | 24% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 11 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 8% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 3 | 4% |
| Engineering | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 6 | 8% |
| Unknown | 25 | 35% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 13. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 18 February 2019.
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#2,478,199
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#2,856
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#55,435
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#102
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