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Ashish Bhalla
cites a study of knowledge, attitude, and practice in 40 residents and
faculty members from various departments prescribing ATT in one medical
institute in India, and says less than 50% knew what directly observed
short-course treatment was, less than 50% knew that the World Health
Organization (WHO) has classified tuberculosis patients into broad
categories; only 57% could answer that sputum-positive patients belong to
category I; 47.5% could correctly categorize tuberculosis lymphadenitis to
category III; less than 25% could correctly write the exact drug schedule
for category II patients; and only 50% could give the correct dosage of
antituberculosis drugs.
WHY BLAME PRIVATE PRACTIONERS? A letter to the editor published in Chest.
(2001;119:1288-1289; 2001; American College of Chest Physicians) from Ashish
Bhalla
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