Rapid assessment of a National tuberculosis control programme in Eastern Ghana
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rapid assessment of a National Tuberculosis Control Programme (NTP) that provides free treatment for TB patients was conducted at Koforidua in eastern Ghana. In 1997, 540 people were clinically suspected with TB and 148 tested positive by laboratory diagnosis. Likewise in the first quarter of 1998, 223 people were suspected and 25 tested positive. Thus, coverage rate increased from 45 in 1997 to 74.5 in 1998. TB incidence was highest (29.7%) in age group 31-40 years and lower (2.2%) in children below 10 years. More males (64%) had TB than females. In 1996, 196 pulmonary TB patients were receiving treatment at Koforidua Central Hospital (KCH). Outcome assessments revealed 40.6% were cured, 5.6% had treatment failure, 6.7% were transferred out, 1.1% died, but most 46.1% defaulted. Defaulters were mostly men (46.3%) and those residing in Koforidua suburbs (47.2%) but this was statistically insignificant. The treatment regimen was effective since most cases were new (70%) with few relapses and treatment failures, 1.2% each. Knowledge of the reason for defaulting is important for the success of the NTP programme.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".