title: [Assessment on the epidemiological efficiency and treatment of smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis].
abstract: An epidemiological project for discovery and treatment of sputum (+) pulmonary tuberculous patients had been carried out during 1988-1990 in patients collected, this number was 3.1 times as the number obtained in the five year pre-application time. The annual mean value of proportion of smear (+) cases of newly registered patients was 63.53%, the average year rate of treatment coverage was 96.2%, the year complication rate of treatment was 89.2%, the sputum negative conversion rate was 87.0%, the cure rate in cohort analysis of management on chemotherapy was 85.8% in the period of 1988-1990. The annual reduction rate of prevalence rate of sputum (+) cases increased to 8.9% annually, but before this program (1979-1985), the percentage increased 1% per year. Thus, the epidemiological efficacy is significant.
authors.affiliation: Hunan Anti-Tuberculosis Institute Changsha.
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Peng
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D009169:Mycobacterium tuberculosis / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015995:Prevalence; D015397:Program Evaluation; D013183:Sputum / Q000382:microbiology; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*