Clinicopathological Study of Tuberculosis Patients in a Tertiary Care Medical College Hospital
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Abstract
Background: The aim of the study was to assess the clinical and socio-demographic characteristics of tuberculosis (TB) patients in a tertiary care medical college hospital of Bangladesh. Methods: An observational study was conducted over a period of 1 year from September 2015 to August 2016 in the Outpatient Department of Jahurul Islam Medical College Hospital and Department of Pathology, Jahurul Islam Medical College, Kishoregonj. The inclusion criteria of the study were pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) and extrapulmonary tuberculosis (EPTB) cases receiving anti-tubercular drugs therapy. Primary data from each patient were included in TB patient profile form such as age, gender, educational level, annual income in taka, occupational status and selected social habits like smoking and alcohol. Results: Out of 112 patients studied, 50 (44.6%) were male and 62 (55.4%) were female. The majority of patients 69 (61.7%) were in the age group of 15 - 34 years. Annual family income of 78 (69.6%) patients ranged between 36,000 and 150,000 taka. Out of 112 patients, 43 (38.4%) were illiterate and 36 patients (32.2%) were unemployed. Half of the patients were smoker. The most common sites involved in EPTB were the lymph nodes (38.2%) followed by the pleura (36.4%). The most common symptoms observed in PTB patients were cough with expectoration (96.5%) followed by weight loss (80.7%), fever (73.7%) and loss of appetite (54.4%). Conclusion: Prevalence of infection was noticed between PTB and EPTB with age and it was more common in younger age. However, based on our results, TB control programme might usefully target young middle-aged populations for early diagnosis of TB to decrease TB morbidity and mortality. Clin Infect Immun. 2016;1(2):41-44 doi: https://doi.org/10.14740/cii56e
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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 | 0.002 | 0.015 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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".