A Retrospective Study to Determine the Prevalence and Outcome of Tuberculosis among Patients Who Visited the TB Annex Hospital in Congo Town, Monrovia, Liberia from July 2009 to July 2010
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Abstract
This study was conducted at the TB Annex Hospital in Monrovia; the capital city for Liberia. The Annex is theonly public health center build currently to treat TB and its related complications. The major aim of this paperwas to determine the rate of sputum positive cases among those who visited the TB Annex Hospital from July2009 to July 2010 and factors (age, gender, education, time and season) associated with this probability.Additionally, it was meant to find the rate of treatment compliance and various factors also associated with itsprobability. A cross-sectional descriptive study design was used and all the 299 patients who visited the Centerto seek health care’s hospital charts were thoroughly reviewed. Results showed in Figure 1 that the prevalence ofTB was very high among those who visited the TB Annex Hospital. The Exact Binomial Test was used withp<0.05 and CI (0.864 – 0.934).Accordingly, the monthly incidence of the disease remains very high rangingfrom 75% to 100% respectively. Amazingly, in January 2010 alone, all 42 patients who visited the Annex weresputum positive. During the period under study according to Table 1 and looking at the sputum screening test byage distribution as a variable, the various age range were set at 0-6,7-12,13-18,19-24, 25-30and 31years andabove respectively. Accordingly, the latter recorded the highest number of patients 126 out of 299 yet withp>0.05.Out of the 299 patients, 172 was males with 127 females. For their educational level, its corresponding pis < 0.05 indicating that the disease was distributed based on their level of education. The dry season recorded133 patients out of which 124 were sputum positive cases. According to Table 2, age group 31 and abovecompleted their TB treatment(66.09%) and the rest closely dispersed but p>0.05. For gender, the females didextremely well (80.18%) in complying with treatment than their male counterparts p<0.05. There was nodifference seen with regards to the distribution of the disease by season as a factor.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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