Tuberculosis treatment discontinuation and symptom persistence: an observational study of Bihar, India's public care system covering >100,000,000 inhabitants.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The effectiveness of India's TB control programs depend critically on patients completing appropriate treatment. Discontinuing treatment prior to completion can leave patients infectious and symptomatic. Developing strategies to reduce early discontinuation requires characterizing its patterns and their link to symptom persistence.

Methods

The 2011 BEST-TB survey (360 clusters, 11 districts) sampled patients (n = 1007) from Bihar's public healthcare system who had initiated treatment >6 months prior to being interviewed, administering questionnaires to patients about TB treatment duration and symptoms, prior treatment, and sociodemographic characteristics. Multivariate logistic regression models estimated the risk of treatment discontinuation for these characteris

SUBMITTER: Babiarz KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4041057 | biostudies-literature | 2014 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature