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Numbers and percentages of GPs who considered TB as one of the three possible diagnoses in any of the 5 clinical vignettes describing TB-cases |
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| Clinical Vignette |
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| Private |
Public |
P-Value |
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| N (%) |
N (%) |
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| TB case 1 (5 weeks cough, loss of weight) |
93 (60.4%) |
81(78.6%) |
0.002 |
| TB case 2 (HIV with prolonged cough) |
119 (77.3%) |
83 (80.6%) |
0.526 |
| TB case 3 (loss of weight, night sweats) |
112(72.2%) |
91 (88.3%) |
0.003 |
| TB case 4 (cough with heamoptysis) |
109 (70.8%) |
78 (75.7%) |
0.382 |
| TB case 5 (Cough, crackles at the apex) |
119 (77.3%) |
96 (93.2%) |
0.001 |
| Sarcoidosis |
70 (49%) |
44 (44.4%) |
0.490 |
| Fibrosis |
48 (32.9%) |
24 (24.2%) |
0.145 |
| Pneumonia |
8 (5.5%) |
21 (21.2%) |
0.001 |
| bronchiectasis |
16 (11.1%) |
13 (13.1%) |
0.633 |
| COPD |
13 (9.0%) |
12 (12.1%) |
0.420 |
Al-Maniri et al. BMC Public Health 2008 8:177 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-8-177 |
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