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Incidence and risk factors for drug intolerance and association with incomplete treatment for tuberculosis: analysis of national case registers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2001-2010

Smith, C; Abubakar, I; Thomas, HL; Anderson, L; Lipman, M; Reacher, M; (2014) Incidence and risk factors for drug intolerance and association with incomplete treatment for tuberculosis: analysis of national case registers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2001-2010. Thorax , 69 (10) 956 - 958. 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204503. Green open access

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Abstract

Anti-tuberculosis drug regimens are efficacious, but drug intolerance can be severe and may impact on treatment completion rates. The Enhanced Tuberculosis Surveillance (ETS) system is a case register of all new notifications of tuberculosis in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. We conducted a cohort study to estimate the incidence of, and risk factors for, drug intolerance reported through ETS between 2001 and 2010 and to assess its relationship with treatment non-completion. Reports of drug intolerance were found for 868/67,547 (1.28%) patients in the cohort, and important risk factors were female sex, older age, later case report year and white ethnicity. Drug intolerance was associated with an approximate fivefold increased odds of treatment non-completion (p<0.001). These results highlight the need for better-tolerated drug regimens and close case management of patients at risk of drug intolerance to improve treatment completion rates and contribute to more effective disease control.

Type: Article
Title: Incidence and risk factors for drug intolerance and association with incomplete treatment for tuberculosis: analysis of national case registers for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 2001-2010
Location: England
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204503
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/thoraxjnl-2013-204503
Language: English
Additional information: © 2013 The Author(s). This is an Open Access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
Keywords: Tuberculosis, Adolescent, Adult, Aged, Antitubercular Agents, Child, Child, Preschool, Disease Susceptibility, Drug Resistance, Multiple, Bacterial, England, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Incidence, Infant, Infant, Newborn, Male, Middle Aged, Northern Ireland, Population Surveillance, Retrospective Studies, Risk Factors, Tuberculosis, Multidrug-Resistant, Wales, Young Adult
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Medical Sciences > Div of Medicine > Respiratory Medicine
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute of Health Informatics
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1417824
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