INTRODUCTION: Early diagnosis and supervised treatment remains the mainstay for @entity378 ( @entity378 ) control in India. METHODS: A facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted to assess diagnostic and treatment practices of @entity378 management as per the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme at a secondary level health facility in north India. This hospital mostly caters to rural and peri-urban populations in the @entity616 of Faridabad district, Haryana. A sample size of 244 was calculated. Consecutive chest symptomatic @entity1 were recruited in the study. Information about socio-demographic characteristics and treatment was obtained from a routine history-taking process in the outpatient clinic. Results were expressed as mean, @entity5494 ( @entity5494 ) and odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI). RESULTS: A total of 250 @entity1907 suspects were recruited, out of which 55.4% were males and mean age of study @entity1 was 35.4 years ( @entity5494 14.6). Almost half (47.1%) of the @entity1 had sought treatment from government hospitals, followed by 46.7% from private hospitals. Those who had visited a private facility were significantly more likely not to receive sputum acid-fast bacillus (AFB) diagnostic testing (OR=7.26, 95% CI 4.04-13.08), likely to be taking a second-line anti- @entity378 drug as an antibiotic trial (OR=3.65, 95% CI 1.17-11.30), be empirically taking anti- @entity378 drugs (OR=5.28, 95% CI 1.50-118.64) and getting a serological test done (OR=9.58, 95% CI 1.20-76.0) than those who went to a government health facility. Those who made at least three visits to a private facility were significantly more likely to have taken a second-line anti- @entity378 drug as an antibiotic trial (OR=3.56, 95% CI 1.36- 9.28) and be empirically taking anti- @entity378 drugs (OR=5.75, 95% CI 2.18-15.20) than those that made fewer than three visits. CONCLUSIONS: This study documented inappropriate diagnostic and treatment practices in @entity378 management and highlights the need to generate awareness about it among health practitioners in north India.

Quality of diagnostic and treatment practices of XXXX management amongst health practitioners in Haryana, north India.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'patients'] @entity5494 :: ('MESH:D010262', 'Disease') :: ['standard deviation', 'SD'] @entity378 :: ('MESH:D014376', 'Disease') :: ['TB', 'tuberculosis'] @entity616 :: ('MESH:D006327', 'Disease') :: ['Ballabgarh block'] @entity1907 :: ('MESH:D014397', 'Disease') :: ['pulmonary TB']
@entity1907 :: (MESH:D014397,Disease) :: ['pulmonary tuberculosis']
