Maher D, Nunn P
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Bull World Health Organ. 1998;76(3):307-8.
The most important determinant of the outcome of treatment of tuberculosis (TB) patients is the access that they have to reliable diagnosis and treatment services organized within a national tuberculosis programme (NTP) as part of DOTS, the name of the WHO-recommended TB control strategy. Accurate evaluation of treatment outcomes requires inclusion of all patients diagnosed, including those not registered; part of routine NTP management should therefore involve regular cross-checks between laboratory diagnostic registers and NTP treatment registers. Finally, control services should take into consideration the type of TB, the presence of concomitant infection with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), and patient characteristics.
结核病（TB）患者治疗结果的最重要决定因素是他们能否获得国家结核病规划（NTP）内组织的可靠诊断和治疗服务，这是世卫组织推荐的结核病控制策略“直接观察短程治疗”（DOTS）的一部分。准确评估治疗结果需要纳入所有已诊断的患者，包括未登记的患者；因此，NTP常规管理的一部分应包括定期对实验室诊断登记册和NTP治疗登记册进行交叉核对。最后，防控服务应考虑结核病的类型、是否合并感染人类免疫缺陷病毒（HIV）以及患者特征。
