[Therapeutic modalities applied to tuberculotics in the Rhône Department in 1982].
Four hundred tuberculous patients who had been recorded in the register of the Rhône department during 1982 were retrospectively investigated for treatment procedures (hospital care and drug regimen); 89 had to be excluded: 42 died during treatment, in 30 the initial diagnosis was no longer maintained, 17 were lost to follow up. Hospital admission was required in more than 91% patients and 60% patients were sent to sanatoria. The duration of hospital care varied with the physician (university or not, pneumologist or not), the disease (localization, bacteriology) and the patients: the shortest duration was seen in young North African women, the longest in maghrebian men. Compared with "official recommendation" chemotherapy is usually prescribed for longer than necessary (mean treatment duration: 11 months. Ethambutol prescription for 8 months). These data illustrate the usual gap seen between "scientific" data given by controlled trials and routine practice.
Centre épidémiologique des Maladies respiratoires, Lyon.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D000995:Antitubercular Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D002648:Child; D004359:Drug Therapy, Combination; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014376:Tuberculosis / Q000188:drug therapy*
D000995:Antitubercular Agents
Modalités thérapeutiques appliquées chez les tuberculeux du Rhône en 1982.