Summary Objectives: To assess the quality of routine data collection on relapses in leprosy programmes in six countries. Design: Through a questionnaire for project managers. Results: The number of reported relapse cases did not correlate with number of new cases in the individual projects. Even where available, skin smears were not always used for diagnosis of MB cases and relapses. The diagnosis of relapses in the participating projects was exclusively on clinical basis – in 91.8% on the basis of new lesions. Conclusion: Criteria for identification of relapses were not known or not applied in uniform manner in the projects involved in the research.
BT - Leprosy review C1 -http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23614251
CN - DEEPAK 2012 IS - 4 J2 - Lepr Rev. LA - eng N2 -Summary Objectives: To assess the quality of routine data collection on relapses in leprosy programmes in six countries. Design: Through a questionnaire for project managers. Results: The number of reported relapse cases did not correlate with number of new cases in the individual projects. Even where available, skin smears were not always used for diagnosis of MB cases and relapses. The diagnosis of relapses in the participating projects was exclusively on clinical basis – in 91.8% on the basis of new lesions. Conclusion: Criteria for identification of relapses were not known or not applied in uniform manner in the projects involved in the research.
PY - 2012 EP - 340–343 T2 - Leprosy review TI - A multi-centre study on quality of routine data collection on relapses UR - https://leprosyreview.org/article/83/4/34-03343 VL - 83 ER -