PMID- 18604111
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20081211
LR  - 20080708
IS  - 1812-2078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1812-2027 (Linking)
VI  - 6
IP  - 1
DP  - 2008 Jan-Mar
TI  - Tuberculosis diagnosed / managed at NGMC, Teaching Hospital, Kohalpur: a joint 
      private-public effort.
PG  - 28-32
AB  - INTRODUCTION: Medical colleges both in public and private sector in Nepal have 
      been supporting national TB control program (NTP) in its effort to control TB and 
      its eventual elimination. Official collaboration between Nepalganj Medical 
      College (NGMC), a private sector medical college and NTP was developed in 2000; a 
      joint private-public initiative to contain TB. OBJECTIVES: This study has been 
      done with the objectives a) to review the TB cases diagnosed/managed at NGMC 
      Teaching Hospital (TH), Kohalpur, in Financial Year 2063/2064 (Shrawan 63 Asad 
      64) and b) to assess the contribution of NGMC, TH, Kohalpur towards TB control. 
      METHODOLOGY: This is record based review of TB cases diagnosed, categorized, 
      treated at NGMC TH, Kohalpur and referred to respective health facilities in 
      Financial Year 2063/2064 (Shrawan 63 Asad 64). And case detection with respect to 
      detected TB cases in Midwestern Region and entire country. RESULTS: Around 13% of 
      detected TB cases for Mid Western Region and 1.5 % of detected TB cases at 
      national level were diagnosed at NGMC, TH, Kohalpur. 35% of cases were of 
      pediatric TB; lymph node TB, pleural effusion & abdominal TB were common form of 
      extra pulmonary (EP) TB seen in children. 20.8%, 44.8% and 34.4% of cases in 
      adults were of sputum smear (SS) + pulmonary TB (PTB), SS- PTB & EPTB 
      respectively; pleural effusion, lymph node TB, Miliary & abdominal TB were common 
      form of EPTB seen in adults. CONCLUSION: Contribution of NGMC, TH, Kohalpur 
      towards case detection seems to be significant. The role of medical colleges in 
      TB control can not be underestimated.
FAU - Piryani, R M
AU  - Piryani RM
AD  - Department of Medicine, KIST Medical College, Lalitpur, Nepal. 
      r_piryani@yahoo.com
FAU - Kohli, S C
AU  - Kohli SC
FAU - Shrestha, G
AU  - Shrestha G
FAU - Rawat, T
AU  - Rawat T
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Nepal
TA  - Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ)
JT  - Kathmandu University medical journal (KUMJ)
JID - 101215359
SB  - IM
MH  - Adolescent
MH  - Adult
MH  - Child
MH  - Child, Preschool
MH  - Female
MH  - Hospitals, Teaching/*organization & administration
MH  - Humans
MH  - Incidence
MH  - Infant
MH  - *Interinstitutional Relations
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Nepal
MH  - Private Sector/*organization & administration
MH  - Public Sector/*organization & administration
MH  - Retrospective Studies
MH  - Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant/epidemiology
MH  - Tuberculosis, Pulmonary/*diagnosis/*drug therapy/epidemiology
MH  - Young Adult
EDAT- 2008/07/08 09:00
MHDA- 2008/12/17 09:00
CRDT- 2008/07/08 09:00
PHST- 2008/07/08 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/12/17 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2008/07/08 09:00 [entrez]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Kathmandu Univ Med J (KUMJ). 2008 Jan-Mar;6(1):28-32.