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Chinese Journal of Antituberculosis ›› 2022, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (4): 397-402.doi: 10.19982/j.issn.1000-6621.20220018

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A survey on TB screening among four high-risk groups in general medical institutions in Tianjin City

GAO Li, PANG Xue-wen, WAN Ying, YANG Guang-wei, LI Dan, ZHANG Wen-qian, CHEN Sheng-yu()   

  1. Research Room of Tianjin Center for Tuberculosis Control and Prevention,Tianjin 300000, China
  • Received:2022-01-28 Online:2022-04-10 Published:2022-04-06
  • Contact: CHEN Sheng-yu E-mail:chenshengyu@tj.gov.cn

Abstract:

Objective: To investigate the current status of tuberculosis screening in inpatients with unilateral pleural effusion, hemoptysis and inpatients prescribed with immunosuppressant or long-term glucocorticoid in general medical institutions of Tianjin City. Methods: Convenient sampling was used to select 31 general medical institutions with large number of TB cases in Tianjin City as study sites, then 10 inpatients’ medical records were selected from designated department of each medical institution, a total of 1240 patients were included and finally records of 419 patients meeting definition of the 4 high-risk groups were extracted as research objects, including 164, 97, 86 and 72 patients for each of the unilateral pleural effusion group, hemoptysis group, immunosuppressant group and long-term glucocorticoid group. Results: The 31 general medical institutions were mainly tertiary hospitals, accounting for 80.6% (25/31).46.1% (193/419) of the 4 high-risk groups completed examination for TB diagnosis. 57.3% (94/164), 52.6% (51/97), 29.1% (25/86), 31.9% (23/72) of inpatients completed the examination for each of the unilateral pleural effusion group, hemoptysis group, immunosuppressant group and long-term glucocorticoid group.The proportions of patients taking smear, culture, GeneXpert, TST, IGRA and tuberculosis antibody examination were 64.8% (125/193), 16.6% (32/193), 10.9% (21/193), 8.3% (16/193), 18.1% (35/193) and 34.2% (66/193), respectively. The proportion of IGRA examination was 21.1% (35/66) in tertiary general medical institutions, higher than 0.0% (0/27) in secondary general medical institutions with statistically significant difference (χ2=6.954, P=0.005), while the proportion of tuberculosis antibody examination was 31.3% (52/166) in tertiary institutions, lower than that of secondary institutions(51.9%, 14/27), the difference was statistically significant (χ 2=4.348, P=0.049) too. Conclusion: In Tianjin City, the proportion of high-risk population undergoing tuberculosis examinations in general medical institutions was quite low which should be further improved.

Key words: Tuberculosis, Pleural effusion, Haemoptysis, Immunosuppressant, Glucocorticoids, Hospital,general, Tianjin city

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