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REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA
Volume 34, Issue 5, Pages 437-443Publisher
REVISTA DE SAUDE PUBLICA
DOI: 10.1590/S0034-89102000000500002
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tuberculosis, drug therapy; recurrence, prevention and control; epidemiologic surveillance; quality of health care; patient acceptance of health care; patient compliance; patient dropouts; health services administration
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Objective Recurrent patients due to treatment dropout or disease relapse have been congesting health centers and impeding treatment routines and services. The purpose is to study aspects of previous treatment and irregularities concerning the patient, medication and service organization and to evaluate the outcome of retreatment. Methods A descriptive study of patient's personal characteristics, previous treatment and retreatment was carried out at Campinas, Sao Paulo State, in 1993 and 1994. Statistics analyses were performed using 95% confidence interval with Yates correction, exact Fisher test and Mantel Haenszel qui-square for stratification. Results Retreatment sequence corroborated with the default rates (63%) that were lower, but still high among relapsed cases (28.4%). Only 34.1% of relapsed cases did not present irregularities at previous treatment. Conclusions High proportions of retreatment and inadequate previous treatment are favouring drug resistance. Efforts should be taken to improving tuberculosis services efficiency because many irregularities are due to failures in health services routine.
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