Clinical Profile and outcome of Tuberculosis Patients from 2013-2017 at Medical Teaching Institute in Peshawar

Abstract

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a disease of interest from a long time and killed more of its infected peoples than any other infectious diseases. It is also known as disease of poverty as it mainly affects persons of poor countries. Due to this disease an average of 20-30% of annual household income loses of diseased person.Objective: To determine the profile and treatment outcome of TB patients enrolled for treatment at DOTS center, department of Pulmonology, Lady Reading hospital Peshawar (LRH), Pakistan.Methodology: This study was conducted at Department of Pulmonology, LRH Peshawar, Pakistan. Secondary data was collected from 2013 to 2017. Data were edited manually before entry to a computer and then entered to Microsoft excel programme. Demographic and clinical data such as age, sex, type of TB and treatment outcome were retrieved from TB 03 register using dataextraction sheets. A descriptive analysis was conducted to get summary values of treatment outcome of TB and other explanatory variables. Finally, the results were presented in the form of tables and charts.Results: Total 1235 TB patients were registered during this study period, of which 8 patients were NE so excluded from the study. Thus for our study we included 1227 TB patients for analysis. Of the total included, 630 (51.3%) were males. Mean age of participants were 36.8 years with SD of ±16.3. Moreover, high proportions of TB patients; 363 (29.4%) and 323 (26.3%) were in the age groups of 11-20 and 21-30 years, respectively. Among PTB cases, 89.6% of patients achieved successful outcomes and in EP cases 92.5% were achieved successful outcomes, whereas 5.8% patients were died among EP cases.Conclusion: This study showed that TB mainly affected individuals in the reproductive age group. The proportion of patients who were successfully treated was above the MDG target of 85% treatment success rate and comparable with the milestone target of > 90% treatment success rate. This study concluded that TB is still a major public health problem at the studied area.