Resistant Tuberculosis
Conditions
Interventions
Three hundred and fifty one ( 351 ) patients suspected of resistant tuberculosis to at least one anti - TB drug, which reach the five ( 5 ) Health Units participants will be subjected to the following
Other
Sponsors
Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Centro de Referência Professor Hélio Fraga
Hospital de Messejana Dr. Carlos Alberto Studart Gomes
Hospital Sanatório Partenon
Instituto Clemente Ferreira
Instituto Estadual de Doenças do Tórax Ary Parreiras
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Age over 18 years; individuals or their legal representatives who sign the Consent Free and Clear; TB resistant suspected cases defined by the presence of history of previous treatment for TB; patients hospitalized in referral centers for TB at least once in the past 2 years; staying in nursing homes / hostels; homeless population; drug / alcohol abusers; HIV seropositive individuals and contacts of tuberculosis resistant patients positive smear
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Pregnant; refusal to participate in any phase of the study; patients with resistant tuberculosis confirmed by culture and with appropriate treatment in progress; patients with tuberculosis results from another laboratory that will used by the physician to initiate anti tuberculosis treatment; extra-pulmonary TB suspected patients (without sputum sample) and permanent patients in police and prisons
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Evaluate the cost effectiveness of diagnostic tests by analysis of the time interval between the collect of sputum smaear to detect TB cases and the early adoption of appropriate strategy in anti-TB treatment | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| To evaluate the proportion of culture conversion in the 6th. month after to collect of sputum | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactAfrânio Kritski
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Outcome results
None listed