A Simple Computerised Tuberculosis Register With Data Collection In The Field (Suitable For A Developing Country)

Abstract

An earlier communication described the organisation of the tuberculosis service in Matabeleland, and how the simple card index register enables us to keep track of patients and control their treatment. This paper discusses the second major role of - a tuberculosis register, that is as a repository of clinical and epidemiological information from which material can be extracted for statistical analysis; and how we have been able to introduce this second function at little extra cost and within our existing slender manpower resources.