Short course chemotherapy in industrial workers covered

Patel, A.G. (1982) Short course chemotherapy in industrial workers covered. Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 29 (1). pp. 55-59.

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Abstract

Employees’ State Insurance Scheme was introduced in 1969 in Baroda. Initially there were 45,000 workers covered under Employees’ State Insurance Scheme. At present 1,00,000 workers are covered under the scheme. Case detection and case holding in this group is better than in general population. A bout 40% patients completed conventional chemotherapy as compared to 5 % in general population (Patel, 1977). Director of Employees’ State Insurance Scheme permitted use of Rifampicin in a pilot study to assess the efficacy, acceptability, adverse reactions and cost of drugs in the management of tuberculosis under programme conditions in this group.

EPrint Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Industrial Workers, Short-term Chemotherapy, Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Rifampicin, Adverse Effects
Subjects:	Therapeutics > Drug Therapy Technology, Industry, and Agriculture > Industry Heterocyclic Compounds > Heterocyclic Compounds with 4 or More Rings > Rifamycins Respiratory Tract Diseases > Respiratory Tract Infections > Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Investigative Techniques > Drug Administration Schedule Persons > Patients Respiratory Tract Diseases > Lung Diseases > Tuberculosis, Pulmonary -Journal Repositories > Indian Journal of Tuberculosis
ID Code:	2511
Deposited By:	Mrs Naina Pandita
Deposited On:	20 December 2007

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