Validation of the Romanian Communication Skills Ability Scale - CSAS-RO - A Tool for Medical Schools.

Unlabelled: In medicine ability to communicate requires training and continuous development.

Aim: To validate the Communication Skills Ability Scale in Romanian. Study design: cross-sectional observational interrupted large case series.

Tuberculosis Surveillance in Romania Among Vulnerable Risk Groups Between 2015 and 2017.

Purpose: Romania has the highest tuberculosis (TB) burden in the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA) comprising almost a quarter (23.4%) of the reported patients in 2017, and a TB notification rate six times higher than the EU/EEA average. Although the overall TB notification rate in Romania declined from 154/100.

[Prudent optimism and the evolution of the main indicators of endemic tuberculosis in Romania in 2012].

The implementation of programmes for Tuberculosis Control (NPTC) in the medium term, starting in 1997, who under the auspices and the coordination of the Ministry of Health, was the guarantor of the achievements in these years in TB control, therapeutic success rate of cases being a constant source of 80%. The global incidence of TB (IG) (new cases and relapses) has decreased in the past 10 years with 42%, from a maximum of 142.2per 100 thousand in 2002, to 79.

[Tuberculosis in children in Romania].

According to the World Health Organization and Stop TB Partnership, tuberculosis among children often remains undiagnosed, the main reported causes being lack of access to health services or because health professionals unrecognizing the signs and symptoms of tuberculosis in this age group. In Romania, consistent with TB endemic levels, the overall incidence progressively decreased from 142.2%ooo in 2002 to 82.

[Mortality of tuberculosis in Romania, a marker for severity of the endemic].

After reaching the lowest level of tuberculosis mortality rate in 1980, 3.7% hundred thousand (830 deaths), followed by a few years with low levels of mortality, the period following the year 1985 was marked by a gradual increase in the mortality rate and in 1995 it reached 11.3% hundred thousand (2560 deaths).

[Tuberculosis continues to be a concern].

Tuberculosis (TB) has not been eliminated from none of the world's regions up to now. Trends of TB endemic were constantly favorable in Romania in the recent years: number of new cases and relapses decreased with 13 235, incidence rate with 42%, incidence rate in children with 51% and mortality rate with 44%, from 2002 to 2011. The highest TB risk is being observed in men living in rural area and in those of 45-54 age group.