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Under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), the definition of 'Treatment Success' for drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis include…
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hard · MCQ · Q-CFD5E2
Under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Programme (NTEP), the definition of 'Treatment Success' for drug-sensitive pulmonary tuberculosis includes which of the following combinations?
- A.Cured only
- B.Cured plus Treatment completedCorrect answer
- C.Treatment completed plus Patients transferred out
- D.Cured plus Treatment completed plus Defaulted patients who resumed treatment
Solution
In NTEP and WHO guidelines, 'Treatment Success' is the sum of two mutually exclusive treatment outcome categories: 'Cured' ( bakteriologically confirmed at the end of treatment) and 'Treatment completed' (finished treatment without bacteriologic evidence of failure, but with no record of sputum smear or culture results in the last month).
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