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Estimating the incidence of tuberculosis cases reported at a tertiary hospital in Ghana: a time series model approach.

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BACKGROUND:The incidence of Tuberculosis (TB) differs among countries and contributes to morbidity and mortality especially in the developing countries. Trends and seasonal changes in the number of patients presenting with TB have been studied worldwide including sub-Saharan Africa. However, these changes are unknown at the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital (KBTH). The aim of this study was to obtain a time series model to estimate the incidence of TB cases at the chest clinic of the Korle-Bu Teaching hospital. METHODS:A time series analysis using a Box-Jenkins approach propounded as an autoregressive moving average (ARIMA) was conducted on the monthly TB cases reported at the KBTH from 2008 to 2017. Various models were stated and compared and the best was found to be based on the Akaike Information Criterion and Bayesian Information Criterion. RESULTS:There was no evidence of obvious increasing or decreasing trend in the TB data. The log-transformed of the data achieved stationarity with fairly stable variations around the mean of the series. ARIMA (1, 0, 1) or ARMA (1,1) was obtained as the best model. The monthly forecasted values of the best model ranged from 53 to 55 for the year 2018; however, the best model does not always produce the best results with respect to the mean absolute and mean square errors. CONCLUSIONS:Irregular fluctuations were observed in the 10 -year data studied. The model equation to estimate the expected monthly TB cases at KBTH produced an AR coefficient of 0.971 plus an MA coefficient of - 0.826 with a constant value of 4.127. The result is important for developing a hypothesis to explain the dynamics of TB occurrence so as to outline prevention programmes, optimal use of resources and effective service delivery.

journal_name

BMC Public Health

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BMC public health

authors

Aryee G,Kwarteng E,Essuman R,Nkansa Agyei A,Kudzawu S,Djagbletey R,Owusu Darkwa E,Forson A

doi

10.1186/s12889-018-6221-z

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Has Abstract

pub_date

2018-11-26 00:00:00

pages

1292

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issn

1471-2458

pii

10.1186/s12889-018-6221-z

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Estimating the incidence of tuberculosis cases reported at a tertiary hospital in Ghana: a time series model approach.