https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/482372
標題: | Delayed suspicion, treatment and isolation of tuberculosis patients in pulmonology/infectious diseases and non-pulmonology/infectious diseases wards | 作者: | Hsieh M.-J. HUEY-WEN LIANG Chiang P.-C. Hsiung T.-C. Huang C.-C. Chen N.-H. Hu H.-C. Tsai Y.-H. |
公開日期: | 2009 | 出版社: | Scientific Communications International Ltd | 卷: | 108 | 期: | 3 | 起(迄)頁: | 202-209 | 來源出版物: | Journal of the Formosan Medical Association | 摘要: | Background/Purpose: Delayed diagnosis and isolation increases the risk of nosocomial transmission of tuberculosis (TB). To assess the risk of delayed management of TB, we analyzed the risk factors of prolonged delay in isolation of smear-positive TB patients in pulmonology/ infectious diseases and other wards in a tertiary teaching hospital. Methods: We enrolled smear-positive TB patients aged > 16 years with delayed respiratory isolation following hospitalization. Medical records were reviewed retrospectively. Time intervals between admission, order of sputum acid-fast staining, initiation of anti-tuberculous treatment and isolation were compared between pulmonology/infectious diseases wards (PIWs) and other wards. Risk factors were analyzed in patients with prolonged isolation delay of > 7 days in individual groups. Results: Isolation was delayed in 191 (73.7%) of 259 hospitalized smear-positive TB patients. Median suspicion, treatment and isolation delays were 0, 3 and 4 days in PIWs and 1, 5 and 7 days in other wards. For patients admitted to non-PIWs, atypical chest radiographs, symptoms without dyspnea or not being admitted from the emergency department (ED) were risk factors for prolonged isolation delay exceeding 7 days. The only risk factor for delayed isolation in patients admitted to PIWs was age ? 70 years. Conclusion: Delays in suspicion, treatment and isolation of TB patients were longer in non-PIWs. Clinicians should be alert to those admitted to non-PIWs with atypical chest radiographs, atypical symptoms, or not admitted from the ED. ? 2009 Elsevier & Formosan Medical Association. |
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ISSN: | 0929-6646 | DOI: | 10.1016/S0929-6646(09)60053-X | SDG/關鍵字: | tuberculostatic agent; adult; age distribution; aged; article; controlled study; delayed diagnosis; dyspnea; female; hospital admission; hospitalization; human; infection risk; lung biopsy; lung tuberculosis; major clinical study; male; medical record; patient care; retrospective study; sputum analysis; symptomatology; tertiary health care; thorax radiography |
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