Registering initial defaulters and reporting on their treatment outcomes

A. D. Harries; I. D. Rusen; C. Y. Chiang; S. G. Hinderaker; D. A. Enarson

Registering initial defaulters and reporting on their treatment outcomes

A. D. Harries, I. D. Rusen, C. Y. Chiang, S. G. Hinderaker, D. A. Enarson

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Abstract

This Unresolved Issues article highlights three original articles that appeared last year in the Journal discussing the phenomenon of initial defaulters. There are three important challenges with patients that appear in the laboratory sputum register but are not recorded in the tuberculosis (TB) patient register: the first is how to identify these patients, trace them and get them on to treatment as soon as possible; the second is how to register and report on these cases as part of the case-finding component of TB control; and the third is whether to include these initial default patients in the cohort analysis of treatment outcomes. We recommend a step-wise approach to these challenges and advocate that these patients be included, wherever possible, in the TB patient register and in the cohort analysis of treatment outcomes.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	801-803
Number of pages	3
Journal	International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
Volume	13
Issue number	7
Publication status	Published - Jul 2009
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Initial defaulters
Registration
Treatment outcomes
Tuberculosis

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Infectious Diseases
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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Registering initial defaulters and reporting on their treatment outcomes

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