Asupoto Olabimpe, Anwar Shamsuddin, Westgard Leo K, Alsoubani Majd, Vindenes Tine, Wurcel Alysse G
Department of Medicine, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
BMC Res Notes. 2025 Mar 1;18(1):89. doi: 10.1186/s13104-025-07126-1.
Disparities in testing and treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria (P-NTM) warrant further investigation into language and race's impact on treatment initiation. The objective of the study is to compare the length of treatment initiation for P-NTM patients assessed in the pulmonary and infectious diseases clinics through language and race.
The cohort included 63 patients; 28 patients received treatment, and 35 patients did not receive treatment. According to the IDSA/ATS guidelines for diagnosis of pulmonary NTM, 55% of patients met all three categories, 40% of patients did not fulfill all three categories and 5% of patient charts were inconclusive. Charts were considered inconclusive if a comprehensive NTM evaluation was not conducted, such as no CT imaging, only one culture sent, or lost to follow up.
肺非结核分枝杆菌（P-NTM）检测与治疗方面的差异值得进一步研究语言和种族对治疗启动的影响。本研究的目的是通过语言和种族比较在肺病和传染病诊所评估的P-NTM患者开始治疗的时长。
该队列包括63例患者；28例患者接受了治疗, 35例患者未接受治疗。根据美国感染病学会（IDSA）/美国胸科学会（ATS）的肺NTM诊断指南，55%的患者符合所有三个类别，40%的患者未满足所有三个类别，5%的患者病历结果不明确。如果未进行全面的NTM评估，如未进行CT成像、仅送检一份培养物或失访，则病历结果被视为不明确。
