Table 1.

TB treatment outcomes.

	TB Treatment Outcome	Description
1.	Cured	A patient who completed treatment with evidence of bacteriological response and no evidence of failure.
2.	Treatment completed	A patient who completed treatment but whose outcome does not meet the definition of cure or treatment failure.
3.	Treatment failed	A patient whose treatment regimen needed to be terminated or permanently changed to a new regimen or treatment strategy.
4.	Died	A patient who died for any reason before starting treatment or during treatment.
5.	Lost to follow-up	A patient who did not start treatment or whose treatment was interrupted for 2 consecutive months or more.
6.	Not evaluated	A patient for whom no treatment outcome was assigned. This includes cases transferred out to another treatment unit as well as cases for whom the treatment outcome is unknown to the reporting unit.
7.	Treatment success	This category is the sum of cured and treatment completed.