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Making a timely diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis.
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- Concurrent Rasmussen aneurysm and pulmonary embolism in a patient with cavitary pulmonary tuberculosis.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2026Article
- Role of cell-free DNA technology in assisting paraffin-embedded cytology for the pathological diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Article
- Evaluation of Queue Management System (QMS) Use in Chest X-Ray for Tuberculosis Screening: A Case Study.The Indian journal of radiology & imaging · 2025Article
- Evaluating InferVision's Computer-Aided Detection (CAD) algorithm for Tuberculosis (TB) screening, Lusaka, Zambia.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Timely Pulmonary Tuberculosis Diagnosis Based on the Epidemiological Disease Spectrum: Population-Based Prospective Cohort Study in the Republic of Korea.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Ending tuberculosis: challenges and opportunities.Frontiers in tuberculosis · 2024Review
- Prompt recognition of infectious pulmonary tuberculosis is critical to achieving elimination goals: a retrospective cohort study.BMJ open respiratory research · 2020Article
- Factors Associated with Health-Seeking Preference Among People Who Were Supposed to Cough for More Than 2 Weeks: A Cross-Sectional Study in Southeast China.Patient preference and adherence · 2020Article
- Determinants of Health Care-Seeking Delay among Tuberculosis Patients in Rural Area of Central China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Predicting pulmonary tuberculosis in immigrants: a retrospective cohort study.ERJ open research · 2018Article
- Primary care pearls to help eliminate tuberculosis in Canada.Canada communicable disease report = Releve des maladies transmissibles au Canada · 2016Article
- Chest Radiographic Patterns and the Transmission of Tuberculosis: Implications for Automated Systems.PloS one · 2016Article
- Risk factors for mortality among inpatients with smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis.Pakistan journal of medical sciencesArticle
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Abstract
Making a timely diagnosis of adult-type pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) is critical to interrupting transmission and optimizing treatment outcomes. A hypothesis based on clinical experience is that a timely diagnosis may be made by addressing seven clinical rubrics: six related to history, one to the laboratory. Responses may be considered to be part of a clinical heuristic for making a timely diagnosis of pulmonary TB. The larger the number of affirmative responses, the more likely the diagnosis, although it is probable some questions carry more weight than others. The radiograph is key and may almost be considered to be confirmatory of the history. Collectively, the responses should prompt suspicion of pulmonary TB - submission of sputum for acid-fast bacilli smear and culture, and respiratory isolation.
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