D Wolke, S T Lereya, H L Fisher, G Lewis, S Zammit
Bullying in elementary school and psychotic experiences at 18 years: a longitudinal, population-based cohort study
Psychological medicine
tuberculosis common respiratory disease imposing significant health burden directly observed treatment short course strategy ensures patient compliance tuberculosis treatment aim study assess pattern tuberculosis trend outcome patients registered directly observed treatment short course centre tribhuvan university teaching hospital retrospective observational study conducted tribhuvan university teaching hospital tuberculosis patients age groups registered july 2017 june 2020 tribhuvan university teaching hospital directly observed treatment short course centre included data entry analysis done spss version 200 descriptive statistics performed results interpreted mean frequency percentage total 2790 tuberculosis patients included final analysis 1736 622 males mean age patients 37942028 years pulmonary tuberculosis common type tuberculosis seen 948 34 patients fifty percent total tuberculosis cases confined thorax tubercular pleural effusion pleurisy 146 central nervous system 132 bone joint 122 common forms extrapulmonary tuberculosis mean incident tuberculosis cases registered annually 69759563 nearly half 491 patients completed tuberculosis treatment regimen 433 referred directly observed treatment short course centre per convenience study reflects trend pattern tuberculosis epidemiology tertiary care hospital nepal huge burden pulmonary extrapulmonary tuberculosis tribhuvan university teaching hospital slight annual variation incident tuberculosis cases despite implementation directly observed treatment short course problem noncompliance persists among tuberculosis patients