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| Soto,Alonso; Solari,Lely; Agapito,Juan; Acuna-Villaorduna,Carlos; Lambert,Marie-Laurence; Gotuzzo,Eduardo; Stuyft,Patrick Van der. |
| This study developed a clinical score based on clinical and radiographic data for the diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis (SNPT). SNPT was defined as a positive culture in Ogawa in a patient with two negative sputum smears. Data from patients admitted to the emergency ward with respiratory symptoms and negative acid-fast bacilli (AFB) smears was analyzed by means of logistic regression to develop the predictive score.Two hundred and sixty two patients were included. Twenty patients had SNPT. The variables included in the final model were hemoptysis, weight loss, age > 45 years old, productive cough, upper-lobe infiltrate, and miliary infiltrate. With those, a score was constructed. The score values ranged from -2 to 6. The area under the... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Tuberculosis; Pulmonary; Regression analysis; Scoring methods. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702008000200006 |
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