Health Condition 1: A159- Respiratory tuberculosis unspecified Health Condition 2: A179- Tuberculosis of nervous system, unspecified Health Condition 3: A188- Tuberculosis of other specified organs
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. All children aged 1month -12 years admitted to the PICU, diagnosed as Tuberculosis (TB) bacteriologically and clinically as per case definitions by the World health Organization (WHO). 2. Clinical diagnosis of TB meningitis will be as per the Doerr et al.9 classification. 3. Every readmission after discharge from the hospital (and the subsequent outcome&complications) will be considered as a separate event/ separate case enrolled.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients for whom the parents/guardians are not willing to give informed consent for participation. This is applicable only for the participants enrolled prospectively.Waiver of consent and assent will be requested for the retrospectively enrolled cases, as there will be no patient contact for these patients and all the data will be extracted from the indoor case sheets/ records only.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Frequency of category/ type of patients with Tuberculosis (pulmonary and extrapulmonary Tuberculosis- neurotuberculosis, abdominal TB, musculoskeletal TB, genitourinary TB, disseminated TB, TB lymphadenitis, others-cutaneous TB,TB laryngitis etc). 2. Percentage of primary system affected and the need for PICU admission. Timepoint: At discharge from the Pediatric intensive care unit or at death of the patient. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Survival or death, cause of death, morbidity and sequelae at discharge. 2. Frequency of complications affecting each system and adverse effect of treatment. 3. Percentage of drug resistance pattern.Timepoint: At discharge from the Pediatric intensive care unit or at death of the patient. | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Seth G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital