A SNAPSHOT OF THE PROFILE OF PATIENTS ATTENDING A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL FOR TUBERCULOSIS AND RESPIRATORY DISEASES AT NEW DELHI - A CROSS-SECTIONAL RETROSPECTIVE STUDY
Authors: Dey Ankita , Gupta Sanjay , Prabhu Ananya , Kumar Rajesh 
Published: March 2024

The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) has included targets towards ending the Background:
tuberculosis epidemic by 2030. The strategies towards ending TB includes different milestones and targets for reduction
in incidence of tuberculosis as well as deaths. The present study is a retrospective, cross-sectional study which provides an insight into the data
captured at OPD by the Hospital Management Information System (HIS) of the Institute. The present st Methods: udy includes the data on
patients attending OPD during 1st January 2022 to 31st December 2022 at a tertiary care hospital situated in New Delhi. The relevant
information on patient prole is obtained from the Hospital Management Information System (HIS), developed and implemented by the Institute
for capturing, storing, processing and disseminating information across various departments in the Institute. There have been 60,265 new
registrations and 1,21,920 revisits made at OPD during the year. The present study provides an overview of the clinical and socio-demographic
prole of these n = 1,82,185 patients (total sample size included in the study) visiting the hospital for care and treatment of respiratory illness,
primarily, for Tuberculosis. Several descriptive and analytical data analysis techniques are used to assess the prole of patients. Results: The
average age of the patients is 35 and median is 32. The age distribution is unimodal and the mode is calculated as 22, i.e. the maximum number of
patients are of age 22, even younger than the overall average of the patients. However, patients from Geriatric age-group (more than 60) also
visits in OPD. The total number of geriatric patients visited at OPD during 2022 is 32,505 (accounting for 18% of the total visits during the year).
It may also be noted that the elderly patients have increased number of follow-up visits at OPD for better care at the hospital for tuberculosis and
other respiratory health issues. The maximum number of geriatric patients (i.e. 13.4%) come from states outside Delhi, in comparison to Area
(11%) and Non-area (12%) locations. Most of the OPD patients are from adult age group i.e. 15-59. T Conclusion: he study encompasses
through the socio-demographic prole of all the symptomatic patients visiting OPD and a glimpse of clinical prole after nal diagnosis of the
patients. The study focuses on the efcient use of Hospital Management Information System (HIS) of the Institute at OPD and does not include
other modules of the HIS viz inpatient department (IPD), thoracic surgery and other special clinic modules, which are under development.
Though the overall percentage of symptomatic male patients (55%) are more than the female symptomatic patients (45%), the age-group 15-24
shows higher attendance of female patients than their male counterparts, in all locations. Among the patients diagnosed with tuberculosis, 62%
are suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis and 38% are suffering from extra-pulmonary tuberculosis i.e. the TB disease occurring in other places
than lungs. In patients diagnosed with extra-pulmonary tuberculosis, Tubercular Pleural Effusion and Lymph Node Tuberculosis are the most
occurred conditions