tb_diagnosis: Data from TB studies in South Africa and Uganda

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Data from TB studies in South Africa and Uganda

Description

Demographic and health data collected from primary care clinic patients presenting with TB symptoms in rural South Africa (Kharitode study) and urban Uganda (STOMP study).

Usage

tb_diagnosis

Format

A data frame with 1762 rows and 11 variables:

tb

TB test result (1 = positive, 0 = negative)

age_group

Age group

hiv_pos

Answer to the question "What is your HIV status?" (1 = positive, 0 = negative)

diabetes

Self-reported history of diabetes (1 = diabetes, 0 = no diabetes)

ever_smoke

Answer to the question "Do you smoke tobacco?" (1 = "yes" or "not currently, but formally", 0 = "no, never")

past_tb

Answer to the question "Have you ever been diagnosed with TB in the past?" (1 = yes, 0 = no)

male

Sex (1 = male, 0 = female)

hs_less

Answer to the question "What is the highest grade of education that you have attained?" (1 = Grade 12 or lower, 0 = Any postgraduate education or higher)

two_weeks_symp

Answer to the question "How long had you had a TB symptom (cough, fever, night sweats, weight loss) before you came to clinic?" (1 = >2 weeks, 0 = <2 weeks)

num_symptoms

Number of TB symptoms (cough, fever, night sweats, weight loss)

country

Country in which data were collected (South Africa = Kharitode study, Uganda = STOMP study)

Source

Baik, Y., Rickman, H. M., Hanrahan, C. F., Mmolawa, L., Kitonsa, P. J., Sewelana, T., Nalutaaya, A., Kendall, E. A., Lebina, L., Martinson, N., Katamba, A., & Dowdy, D. W. (2020). A clinical score for identifying active tuberculosis while awaiting microbiological results: Development and validation of a multivariable prediction model in sub-Saharan Africa. PLoS medicine, 17(11), e1003420. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pmed.1003420")}

The data are held in the Johns Hopkins University Data Services database and available at \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.7281/T1/W2AG3A")}.

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