Personal and societal health quality lost to tuberculosis

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 4; no. 4; p. e5080
• Main Authors: Miller, Thaddeus L, McNabb, Scott J N, Hilsenrath, Peter, Pasipanodya, Jotam, Weis, Stephen E
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.04.2009; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Adult; Analysis; Care and treatment; Cohort Studies; Complications; Costs; Death; Developed countries; Disability; Disease control; Disease prevention; Estimates; Female; Health policy; Health Status Indicators; Humans; Illnesses; Impairment; Infections; Infectious diseases; Intensive care; Male; Mathematical analysis; Medical research; Middle Aged; Morbidity; Mortality; Mycobacterium; Patients; Personal communication; Prevention; Public health; Public Health and Epidemiology/Health Policy; Public Health and Epidemiology/Health Services Research and Economics; Public Health and Epidemiology/Infectious Diseases; Quality of life; Quality-Adjusted Life Years; Respiratory system agents; Science; Society; Spanish language; Studies; Tuberculosis; Tuberculosis - epidemiology; Tuberculosis - mortality; Tuberculosis - physiopathology; Ventilators; Fort Worth Texas; United States > US; Texas; Tarrant County Texas

In developed countries, tuberculosis is considered a disease with little loss of Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs). Tuberculosis treatment is predominantly ambulatory and death from tuberculosis is rare. Research has shown that there are chronic pulmonary sequelae in a majority of patients who hav...