Volume : V, Issue : VI, June - 2016

A study of deaths due to tuberculosis in hospitalised patients.

Dr Sanjivani J. Keny, Dr A. L. Da Costa, Dr Durga J. Lawande

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 Background: According to World Health Organization although number of deaths due to TB has decreased over a period of time, the mortality rate still remains unacceptably high. Most of these deaths are preventable. Objectives: 1.To analyse deaths due to TB. 2.To evaluate whether these deaths were preventable. Materials and Methods: Retrospective descriptive study for a period of one year from 1 Jan 2014 to 31 Dec 2014. Deaths due to TB in patients admitted in pulmonary medicine wards were analysed. Results: Fifty–three deaths occurred due to pulmonary tuberculosis of which in 22 patients there was delay in diagnosis, 14 were defaulters , six were DR TB, eleven had HIV–TB co–infection. Delay in diagnosis was due to either lack of awareness or negligence by the patient, family or society in general and also failure to diagnose early at peripheral level despite patient reporting to the health system. Second commonest cause was default from treatment. Conclusions: Most of these deaths could have been prevented by adequate measures.

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Dr Sanjivani J. Keny, Dr A.L. Da Costa, Dr Durga J. Lawande A study of deaths due to tuberculosis in hospitalised patients. International Journal of Scientific Research, Vol.5, Issue : 6 JUNE 2016

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