[PDF] Top 20 Screening for pulmonary tuberculosis among military conscripts in Taiwan.

... PURPOSE: Military service is obligatory for young men who are medically fit in ...eligibility for military ...of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) among military ... See full document

... errors in treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in Taiwan has been reported in previous ...guideline for TB, frontline health workers for TB control often find ... See full document

... the screening work for prescription errors, we’ve created a web-based DSS implementing the paper-based “Taiwan Guidelines for TB Diagnosis & Treatment, 3rd ...designed for collecting ... See full document

... effective screening programs and chemotherpay regimen ...7. In Taiwan, we have a total of 16,089 new TB cases reported in 2002, among them 14,250 (87%) were pulmonary TB ... See full document

... and pulmonary tuberculosis in ...the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program. In total, we found 11366 individuals (aged 20 years and older) with newly diagnosed pulmonary ... See full document

... (5) Results of stepwise logistic regression analyses indicating that being high school graduateds and under, the Reserve, f amilies with smoking habits, higher (>50%) ratio of smoking[r] ... See full document

... In Taiwan, an aggressive case monitoring system has been in place since 1997 through the efforts of local public health administrations in cooperation with the Taiwan Centre for ... See full document

... pulmonary tuberculosis resistant to isoniazid and rifampin (MDR-TB). DESIGN: In a retrospective cohort study, 27 MDR-TB patients who underwent pulmonary resection between December 1990[r] ... See full document

... the tuberculosis epidemic in Taiwan, we prospectively screened for HIV infection in patients with active pulmonary ...the Taiwan Provincial Chronic Disease Control Bureau ... See full document

... guidelines for the treatment of tuberculosis [10], the rate of successful treat- ment is a good performance indicator of diagnosis and ...available in the database we obtained to address this ... See full document

... of pulmonary tuberculosis has increased recently, although there were only about four thousand seven hundred cases of HIV ( Hu- man Immunodeficiency Virus ) infection reported in Taiwan ... See full document

... TB in this population is essential for TB control in ...residing in Taiwan and data of all foreign-born TB cases notified during 2002-2005 were obtained from the ... See full document

... the Taiwan National Health Insurance ...described in previous studies ...data for administrative use and ...implemented in 1995, covering approximately 99% of the whole population of ... See full document

... noted in patients with lung cancers than without. However, in these 2 studies only asthma, but not tuberculosis, bore a significant ...impact. In a hospital based case-control study in ... See full document

... INH for high-risk subjects, such as those with human immunodefi ciency virus infection or or- gan transplant recipients with positive QFT or TST ...15 In our study, no treatment was given to any of our ... See full document

... Abstract Pseudomonas stutzeri (P. stutzeri) is a Gram-negative, non-fermenting rod. It is a rare pathogen; therefore, its isolation is often associated with colonization or contamination. We herein describe the first ... See full document

... drug-susceptible pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosed and treated at the Taiwan Provincial Chronic Disease Control Bureau from November 1990 through December ...94.4% in patients with ... See full document

... problems in later life. Yet, depression and depressive symptoms in older adults are often under-identified by both clinical professionals and ...manifested among elders can differ from those ... See full document

... Coexistent pulmonary TB was found in 4 ...disease. In conclusion, liver TB is a rare condition but curable ...necessary for definite diagnosis of liver TB supplemented with TB-PCR and AFB ... See full document

... of tuberculosis (TB) and the emergence of drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) isolates are of great impact on public ...Centre for Disease Control, Department of Health, Taiwan ... See full document