A Systematic Review of Clinical Diagnostic Systems Used in the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in Children

Table 2

Diagnostic classifications and studies evaluating these classifications.

Author	Year	Country	Scoring criteria	Changes	Study type
Ghidey and Habte [29]	1983	Ethiopia	New	New	Prospective
Migliori et al. [30]	1992	Uganda	Migliori—revised from Ghidey and Habte	Focused towards PTB, added response to treatment as a criteria	Prospective
Madhi et al. [31]	1999	South Africa	Migliori	No change	Prospective
Salazar et al. [32]	2001	Peru	Migliori	Removed response to treatment. Created Peru criteria.	Prospective cohort
Marais et al. [26]	2006	South Africa	New	Symptom based approach	Prospective
World Health; Organization [20]	1983	Multiple	New	New	New guidelines
Cundall [33]	1986	Kenya	1983 WHO guidelines	Modifies by adding family contact	Prospective
Stoltz et al. [34]	1990	South Africa	Modified 1983 WHO guidelines	No change	Prospective
Beyers et al. [35]	1994	South Africa	1983 WHO guidelines	No change	Prospective
Gie et al. [36]	1995	South Africa	Modified 1983 WHO guidelines	No change	Prospective
Schaaf et al. [37]	1995	South Africa	1983 WHO guidelines	No change	Prospective
Houwert et al. [38]	1998	South Africa	1994 WHO guidelines	No change	Prospective
Kiwanuka et al. [42]	2001	Malawi	1983 WHO guidelines	Modified by using only certain radiological findings or positive TST for probable TB	Prospective
Palme et al. [39]	2002	Ethiopia	Modified 1983 WHO guidelines	Required 2/6 criteria	Prospective case-control
Theart et al. [40]	2005	South Africa	Modified 1983 WHO guidelines	No change	Retrospective
Cohen et al. [41]	2008	UK	2006 WHO classification	No change	Retrospective
Osborne [43]	1995	Zambia	Lusaka’s UTH Criteria	New	Review article
Jeena et al. [44]	1996	South Africa	Lusaka’s UTH criteria	No change	Prospective
Ramachandran [45]	1968	India	New	New	Prospective and retrospective