جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « treatment success » در نشریات گروه « پزشکی »

The global burden of tuberculosis (TB) is ranked tenth. Stopping the TB epidemic in 2035 is one of the sustainable development goals. This study was therefore conducted to determine the factors associated with the incidence of tuberculosis and the success rate of tuberculosis treatment in Ramhormoz.

This is a descriptive cross-sectional study conducted in 2021. The study population included patients who had a registered medical record in Ramhormoz Health Center from 2007 to 2020. Then the data were entered into SPSS16 software and analyzed using descriptive tests (frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation) and inferential tests (chi-square test). Ethical considerations were observed in this study.

The total number of identified tuberculosis cases was 154 person. In general, the average incidence of tuberculosis during the study period in Ramhormoz city was equal to 10.05 per hundred thousand people. The average incidence of tuberculosis was 10.58 in 100,000 men and 10.43 in 100,000 women. Also, the incidence of pulmonary tuberculosis was 6.51 percent per thousand, the extrapulmonary type was 3.72 percent per thousand, and the success rate of disease treatment in the study period reached 90.9 percent, which was albeit different for men and women.

The incidence of tuberculosis (positive smear pulmonary tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis) and the success rate of its treatment in Ramhormoz city were almost favorable, but the diagnosis of negative smear pulmonary tuberculosis cases was not encouraging.

The prevalence of head lice infestation rate has been increased among different communities in recent years. In many cases, the treatment of this health problem has not been successful in the short time. This study aimed to determine the factors influencing successful treatment of head lice in Qom province during 2015.
This descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted on all patients with head lice infestation who referred to the Qom city Health Center during 2015. In this study, after case finding, patients with head lice were treated with Permethrin 1% shampoo, twice a week. After completing a course of treatment, the treatment was checked and then success questionnaires were completed for them. Then After data collection by a structured questionnaire, statistical analysis was conducted using Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test in SPSS software (V.16).
Out of 38237 suspected cases with head lice infestation, 11223 (29.35%) of cases were infested with head lice. 43% of cases were treated after a course of treatment. Regarding affecting factors such as the principles and standards in using of permethrin shampoo based on its manufacturer (98.95%), Treat all affected household members simultaneously (96.81%) and applying a mixture of 50% water and white vinegar for 30 minutes and then wash off and to comb through the infested hair daily (91.98%) and Applying it along with a carrier oil such as olive oil, bitter almond on infested hair (80.69%) were affecting factors to treat head lice with permethrin shampoo.
Head lice treatment success depends on several principles and factors only by following these principles and standards tips, including the use of permethrin shampoo with methods that approved by Ministry of Health, infested people will heal. In this context, health education should be given to the people and their families, by Diseases Control Center of Ministry of Health and health care workers.

The prediction models for infertility treatment success have presented since 25 years ago. There are scientific principles for designing and applying the prediction models that is also used to predict the success rate of infertility treatment. The purpose of this study is to provide basic principles for designing the model to predic infertility treatment success.
In this paper, the principles for developing predictive models are explained and then the design of such models in infertility treatments is described in more details by explaining one sample.
The important principles for models that firstly are described are: identifying and defining the purpose, expected function of model, input data that will be used to develop a model: type of intervention or diagnostic procedures that can lead to changes in the samples and output definition or expected result of model function. Further, characteristics of predictive factors in final model, drawing the information flowchart, internal and external validation and attention to the analysis programme of results are the important subjects that have been described.
If predictive models are used properly, can help treatment team and patients to achive best treatment in ART.

Tuberculosis (TB) is the main cause of death in the world. Half of the patient eventually will die during first 5-year of infection if they do not receive suitable treatment. According to WHO’s report, treatment success in Iran is lower than the regional and global mean. This study was conducted to identify the effective factors of treatment failure among tuberculosis patient in golestan province- Iran.
This cross- sectional study was conducted on 331 new smear positive tuberculosis patients that detected in TB laboratory in in golestan province-north of Iran during 2014. Inclusion criteria included weight more than 30kg, age greater than 13 years, diabetes, immune deficiency, liver or kidney diseases. Patients were treated according to a protocol for a period of two months on the DOTS strategy. The criterion of treatment outcome was sputum smear at the end of the second month of treatment. The effect of gender, medication regiment, age, weight, smoking, addiction and severity of smear basilli load on treatment outcome was assessed.
50.8% and 49.2% of patients were treated with combination and separate medicinal regiments, respectively. The conversion rate of smear positive was 67.7% at the end of the second months. According to multivariate logistic regression, the age of the patient (95% CI: 0.96-0.99, OR: 0.98, P=0.017), addiction (95% CI: 1.26-4.54, OR: 2.4, P=0.008), ethnicity (95% CI: 1.86-7.02, OR: 3.62, P=0.0001) and diagnostic smear bacilli load (P The success of two months treatment was fairly low and the important factors on treatment success during the intensive phase were patient age, smoking, addiction and diagnostic smear bacilli load.

As a chronic bacterial disease, tuberculosis is one of the global major health problems. Curb of this disease is one of the Millennium Development Goals. The aim of this study was to evaluate the trends of tuberculosis and its management from 2000 to 2012 in the Kurdistan province, Iran.

In this study national surveillance system data of TB was used.

The mean incidence rate of TB in Kurdistan from 2000 to 2012 was 13.6 per one hundred thousand populations. These rates were 5.13, 2.8, and 5.3 in a hundred thousand for positive and negative smears and extra pulmonary cases respectively. The highest incidence rates of TB were 26 and 18.8 per hundred thousand people between years 2000 and 2001 respectively. There was a rapid decline from 2000 to 2003 in TB incidence reaching 10.8 in 2003. A steady state trend was seen in TB incidence since 2003 and it was 10.5 cases in a hundred thousand in 2012. The average incidence of TB in women during these years was 3.1 times more than men. Based on treatment success indicators, negative smears percent after three months and recovery of positive smears were 60.27 and 87.69 percent in year 2012 respectively. The percentage of failures in this year was 4.69.

Decrease of TB incidence from 2000 to 2003 has been impressive. However, this decline was not very sensible since 2003. Indicators of success in treatment have not changed a lot during these years. Since the nation-wide targets for TB prevention include identifying of 8 cases with positive-smear in one hundred thousand at least, recovery of 90% of the infected cases, and less treatment failure than 2%, there is still a lot of room for progress toward achieving these targets in Kurdistan province.

Timely diagnosis and effective treatment of tuberculosis infected patients, are the key elements for decreasing infection transmission to healthy population and the key to achieving the goal of disease elimination. This study aimed to study the efficiency of DOTS in treating patients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis in Mazandaran province. The present cohort was carried out on 683 patients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis registered in prevention and combat of diseases unit of Mazandaran University of medical sciences in the period of 2004-2009. Of them 362 were in DOTS group whereas, 321 were in self-administered group. After investigating the characteristics of the contextual variables and the homogeneity of groups, treatment results were compared by chi square and poison regression. Analysis was carried out by stata 11. 51.9 percent of infected patients were female. The mean age of patients was 49.73±21.57. No significant difference was observed by age according to gender (p=0.8). Treatment success and failure in DOTS group was 92 and 8 percent respectively, however, in the self-administered treatment group the success and failure in treatment were 83.2 and 16.8 percent respectively.Discussion and Treatment success in self-administered group was 2 percent lower than WHO’s target, however this figure was 7 percent higher than WHO’s target in DOTS group. If health centers treat all tuberculosis cases with DOTS, treatment success will reach to more than ninety percent, which goes beyond WHO’s target.