Tuberculosis, los errores que cometemos: Experiencia del Hospital San Juan de Dios

Abstract

Tuberculosis is an infectious disease that in Chile is far from eradicated. To ask what improvements we could make, we must recognize from our experience at San Juan de Dios Hospital, the major mistakes which many of us do, both in the diagnosis and management of the disease. Possibly the most important, common and serious mistake, is to believe that tuberculosis is eradicated, because if we believe it does no longer exists, then we do not seek it, and leave undiagnosed infectious cases, keeping the reservoirs of the disease.