Suspicious symptom monitoring for leprosy: an optimal practice for early detection under a low endemic situation in Zhejiang Province, China
| العنوان: | Suspicious symptom monitoring for leprosy: an optimal practice for early detection under a low endemic situation in Zhejiang Province, China |
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| المؤلفون: | Yun‐Liang Shen, Wen‐Ming Kong, Mei‐Wen Yu, Li‐Mei Wu, Li‐Juan Fei |
| المصدر: | International Journal of Dermatology. 61:1532-1539 |
| بيانات النشر: | Wiley, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | China, Early Diagnosis, Leprosy, Humans, Public Health, Dermatology, Lymphoma, Follicular |
| الوصف: | Leprosy is a chronic infectious disease that causes disabilities and deformities. Early detection is a major strategy for leprosy control. This study reported a new practice of suspicious symptom monitoring for early detection of leprosy.A descriptive and comparative analysis between a non-strategy group of pre-implementation of suspicious symptom monitoring in 2005-2011 and a strategy group of strategy implementation in 2012-2018 was conducted through indicators of the number of times of misdiagnoses, delayed period, proportion of early detected cases, and proportion of disabilities.Compared with the non-strategy group in 2005-2011, the median number of times of misdiagnoses was decreased from two times to zero times (z = 4.387, P 0.001), and the median delayed period of newly detected cases were shortened from 24 months to 13 months (z = 2.381, P 0.001), the proportion of early detected cases was increased from 43.7% to 75.2% (χSuspicious symptom monitoring promoted early detection of cases by reducing the number of times misdiagnosis of leprosy patients, shortening the delayed period, increasing the proportion of early detection, and decreasing the proportion of disabilities. It is an important and recommendable public health strategy for leprosy prevention and control in a low epidemic condition. |
| تدمد: | 1365-4632 0011-9059 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::f0e2555348e7515770a9d2ad9d9fe918 https://doi.org/10.1111/ijd.16366 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....f0e2555348e7515770a9d2ad9d9fe918 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 13654632 00119059 |
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