[Radiophotographic detection in evaluation of the incidence of tuberculosis].
In a territory with a population of over 120,000 inhabitants, of which 86% in rural environment, with a high tuberculosis endemic rate, four integral detections were organized in 12 districts and three in the other 12 base units of the area between 1969 and 1973. In most of the districts the incidences varied, in the years when integral detections were carried out the index being the double and in some cases 4-5 times higher, than in the years when this investigation was not performed. If annual incidences are computed for the entire area, excluding the cases detected by radiophotography the morbidity indexes appear by 50% lower. If for the whole territory anual incidences are calculated, excluding the cases that have been detected by radiophotography, morbidity indexes appear to be by 50% lower. From the viewpoint of the forms of disease radiophotographic detection brings to the dispensary two-thirds of the oligo- and asymptomatic cases. Subjects eliminating Koch bacilli, representing 44% of the patients that had been betected in a "passive" way, totalized 19% of the cases detected by radiophotography. The cost of detecting a new case was of 2210 lei and the costs for integral detections, related to the population of the area, represented less than one lei per inhabitant.
D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D008400:Mass Chest X-Ray; D012383:Romania; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000453:epidemiology*
Depistarea radiofotografică în evaluarea incidenţei tuberculozei