Appropriateness of The Use of Tuberculosis Screening Guideline at Care and Treatment Clinic Mnazi Mmoja Hospital Zanzibar

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Abstract Background Detection of Tuberculosis Case (TB) in Tanzania continue to be lower to the World Health Organization (WHO) target, Although Tanzania use TB Guidelines to detect TB patients, the validity of the use and appropriateness of information filled has not well assessed. Therefore, this study explored the appropriateness with completeness of the use of TB guideline for TB screening patients. Objective To assess the appropriateness of the use of TB guideline for TB case detection at Care and Treatment Clinic Mnazi Mmoja Hospital (MMH) Zanzibar. Methods A cross-sectional descriptive design was employed using quantitative data collection approaches. Documentary review guide (extraction form and Kobo data collect from) was used to collect 426 CTC patient files through random generator software, in MMH CTC. The data were managed by SPSS 22 version and analyzed by using STATA 14.1 version. Result A total of 408 patient files at CTC MMH were included. Among them, 284(69%) were females, 124(30.4%) males, 9 (2.2%) children less than five years old and 399(9.8%)children five years old and older. 50.00% are overall appropriate questionnaire filling which is not significant, 31.13% moderately appropriate filling and 18.87% inappropriate filling. Conclusions The TB screening questionnaires appropriately filled were not significant. Healthcare practitioners should be regularly completed aware, trained on how to fill the TB diagnostic tools as well supervised on how to improve the quality of TB diagnostic information.