PMID- 20165654
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110714
LR  - 20220311
IS  - 0974-598X (Electronic)
IS  - 0970-2113 (Print)
IS  - 0970-2113 (Linking)
VI  - 25
IP  - 2
DP  - 2008 Apr
TI  - Treatment outcomes of patients placed on treatment under directly observed 
      therapy short-course (dots).
PG  - 75-7
LID - 10.4103/0970-2113.44124 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Tuberculosis continues to be a pressing health problem in India. The 
      Revised National Tuberculosis Programme (RNTCP), an application of Directly 
      Observed Treatment Short-course (DOTS) in India, launched in 1997 needs 
      continuous evaluation. OBJECTIVE: To study the outcomes of treatment among the 
      patients put on DOTS under RNTCP in Chandigarh, UT. MATERIAL #ENTITYSTARTX00026; 
      METHODS: A Longitudinal study was conducted during 2004-2005 in 13 Microscopic 
      centres (MC's) spread over 2 Tuberculosis Units (TU's) under District 
      Tuberculosis Centre (DTC) in Union Territory (UT), Chandigarh. A sample of 265 
      respondents, selected by two-stage stratified random sampling technique, was 
      recruited in the study cohort. Data analysis was done using SPSS-10 statistical 
      software package. RESULTS: For Category I and Category II patients, the Success 
      rate was 98.6% and 90.4% respectively. The overall default rate was 1.1% and 
      failure rate was 2.6%. For re-treatment cases, failure rate was higher i.e. 5.8%. 
      The sputum conversion rate among the new smear positive cases was 93.8% at 3 
      months of treatment. For the re-treatment cases, spu-tum conversion rate at 3 
      months was 94.1%. CONCLUSION: The study concludes that RNTCP is running 
      successfully in UT Chandigarh, having high success rate and low default rate. The 
      reasons for high failure rate should be explored in depth.
FAU - Kaur, Gurpreet
AU  - Kaur G
AD  - Deptt. of Community Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Chandigarh, India.
FAU - Goel, N K
AU  - Goel NK
FAU - Kumar, Dinesh
AU  - Kumar D
FAU - Janmeja, A K
AU  - Janmeja AK
FAU - Swami, H M
AU  - Swami HM
FAU - Kalia, Meenu
AU  - Kalia M
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - Lung India
JT  - Lung India : official organ of Indian Chest Society
JID - 8405380
PMC - PMC2822324
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Cure rate
OT  - DOTS
EDAT- 2008/04/01 00:00
MHDA- 2008/04/01 00:01
PMCR- 2008/04/01
CRDT- 2010/02/19 06:00
PHST- 2010/02/19 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2008/04/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/04/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 2008/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - LI-25-75 [pii]
AID - 10.4103/0970-2113.44124 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Lung India. 2008 Apr;25(2):75-7. doi: 10.4103/0970-2113.44124.