Congruence Of Record Keeping of Tuberculosis Patients by Field Interviews in A Community Block of District Amritsar
Keywords:
Recording and reporting system, Treatment outcome, DOTSAbstract
Introduction: Good recording practices are necessary for effective patient management. When high-quality data are available, success can be documented and corrective actions taken to address problems that are identified.
Objective: To assess the accuracy of record keeping of TB patients by field interviews
Methods: The study was conducted on a total of 326 patients residing in the area of PHC Verka and registered with District Tuberculosis Centre, Amritsar. House to house visits were done. Outcome of the patient according to the TB register and according to interview were compared.
Results: According to record out of 228 patients, the outcome of 105(46.10%), patients was cured, 105(46.10%) patients had completed their treatment, 10(4.40%) had defaulted, 6(2.6%) were failure and 2(0.9%) had transferred out. On interviewing the patients the outcome of 98(43%) was cured, 95(41.70%) were treatment completed, 29(12.70%), defaulted and 6(2.6%) were failure. Discrepancies were found between outcome recorded on TB register and as obtained on interviewing the patient. The treatment outcome according to record and outcome according to interview, was found to be statistically significant (p=0.005)
Conclusion: Present study reveals that there is an urgent need to strengthen performance of the programme by proper record-keeping and efficient supervision by district health officials.
References
Murray CJ, Styblo K, Rouillon A. Tuberculosis in devel-oping countries: burden, intervention and cost. Bulletin of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, 1990, 65:6–24.
KP Unnikrishnan ,PS Jagannatha Monitoring tuberculo-sis control programme - recording, reporting and super-vision NTI Bulletin, 2002; 38(3 &4):11-17.
Pithadia PR, Lodhiya KK, Parmar DV, Yadav SB. Eval-uation of Performance of Revised National TB Control Programme in Jamnagar District, Gujarat. Natl J Com-munity Med 2012; 3(4):612-6.
State TB Division, Ahmedabad. Report of Internal eval-uation of Junagadh and Porbandar districts-2006. State TB Division, Ahmedabad, Gujarat.2006.p:11-12.
Dunbar R. Accuracy and completeness of notification of tuberculosis in two high incident communities in Cape Town, South Africa[thesis].Cape Town : University of Stellenbosch ; 2011
Managing the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in your area-A Training Course; Modules 1-4: Central TB Division, Directorate General of Health Sciences, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi, April 2005:14.
World Health Organisation. Global Tuberculosis Report. WHO Report 2014: ch4.
TB India 2012. RNTCP Annual status report. Central TB Division. Directorate General Of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi :11
Mohrana PR, statapathy DM, Sahani NC, Behera TR, Jena D, Tripathi RM. An analysis of treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients put under DOTS at tertiary level health facility of Orrisa. Journal of Community Medicine. 2009 July-December [cited 2011 Jul 28]; 5(2).Available from:http://www.docstoc.com/docs/16071929/An Analysis -of-treatment-outcome-among-TB-patients-put.
Pandit N, Choudhary SK. A study on treatment com-pliance of Directly Observed Therapy for Tuberculosis. Indian J Comm Med. 2006; 31(4): 241-3.
Mittal C, Gupta SC. Non compliance to DOTS.: How it can be decreased. Indian J Comm Med. 2011; 36:27- 30.
Chennaveerappa PK, Siddharam SM, Halesha BR, Jayashree N. Treatment outcome of tuberculosis pa-tients registered at DOTS centre in a teaching hospital, South Indaia. Int J Biol Med Res 2011; 2: 487-9.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
The authors retain the copyright of their article, with first publication rights granted to Medsci Publications.
