Table 2

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

Clinical Vignette




Private
Public
P-Value

N (%)
N (%)


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