Prevalencia de pacientes con diagnóstico de tuberculosis pulmonar y extrapulmonar en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. 2015-2016

Abstract

Background: Tuberculosis is a public health problem, the Treatment by Direct Observation System is the basis of Tuberculosis control, it indicates how the treatment of the disease should be carried out, allowing to solve the factors that intervene in the success of the same. General Objective: Determine the prevalence of patients diagnosed with Tuberculosis in the Regional Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso of the city of Cuenca in the period 2015-2016. Methodology: The study was descriptive, observational, retrospective with patients diagnosed with Tuberculosis admitted to the Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso, through the collection of information by direct observation of the medical records and the database of patients in the year 2015-2016. tabulated the data obtained in the forms with SPSS 20.0 to obtain the total prevalence, then analyzed and classified the information according to the established variables. Results: The male sex predominates with 55.9% in 2015 and 57.7% in 2016, predominating 71-80 years (13.7%) in 2015 and 21-30 years (16.6%) in 2016. Obtaining 59 positive cases (20.8%) for Tuberculosis in 2015-2016. Pulmonary Tuberculosis predominates with 37 cases (11.4%), against 22 cases (9.4%) of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis. The Hospital used for patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis Hospitalization (56.8%), for Clinical Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis with 40.9%. For diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis, the most frequently delivered sample is Pleural Fluid and Bronchial Aspiration. For Pulmonary Tuberculosis it is necessary to deliver two sputum for the confirmation of a positive case.