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KMID : 0371019830160010129
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Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
1983 Volume.16 No. 1 p.129 ~ p.134
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A Comparison Study of Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients Between those with Previous History of Treatment and Those Without it before Registration to Health Center
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Abstract
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The records for the tuberculosis patients who discharged from the health center during 1582 in Kangwha county were analized in order to study the characteristics and the patterns of treatments for the pulmonary tuberculosis patients with the history of previous treatment before registration and also the relationship between the prevics ´history of treatment and the outcome at the time of discharge from the health center.
The major findings are as follows.
1. These who have a history of previous treatment were 58, 22.5% of those 258 patients who were studied.
2. There is no difference in sex however the rate of previous history of treatment was higher among middle age group (20-59) than young and eld age group (under 19 or over 60)
3. The rate of previous treatment was rather higher in these lived in remote area from Eup.
4. As for the reationship with occupation, students and civil servants who easily exposured to the public relations of government´s tuberculcsis control program experienced lower previous treatment before registration than farmers or unemploved.;
5. A total of 62.1o were previously treated less than 6 months, 29.3,,010 between 6 and 12 months, and only 8.6o more than 12 months before registration to health center.
6. The most common used anti-tuberculcsis drugs were isoniazid and ethambutol but only 13.86v used government-standardized precripticn and 69.0% used secondary drugs from its beginning.
7. There was no statistical difference between the previous hi_stcry if treatment and the outcome at the time of discharge from the health center. f´o;vever the ´longer the duration of treatment before registration was the lower the cure rate at heOth center was.
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