Table 1.
Characteristics | Categories | Total |
Outcomes of tuberculosis treatment |
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---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cured/Completed* | Failure | Deaths | Defaulted | Transferred | P-value | |||
N(%) |
|
1647 |
1121 (68.1) |
6 (0.4) |
86 (5.2) |
331 (20.1) |
103 (6.3) |
|
Age, years, n(%) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
≤33 |
854 (51.9) |
609 (71.3) |
2 (0.2) |
24 (2.8) |
172 (20.1) |
47 (5.5) |
<0.001 |
|
>33 |
793 (48.1) |
512 (64.6) |
4 (0.5) |
62 (7.8) |
159 (20.1) |
56 (7.1) |
|
|
Mean (SD) |
35.5 (13.2) |
35.3 (12.9) |
37.3 (13.7) |
43.9 (14) |
35.7 (13.3) |
37.1 (13.9) |
<0.001 |
Men, n (%) |
|
938 (57) |
635 (67.7) |
4 (0.4) |
50 (5.3) |
194 (20.7) |
55 (5.9) |
0.467 |
Urban residence, n (%) |
|
1390/1622 (85.7) |
968 (69.6) |
5 (0.4) |
72 (5.2) |
278 (20) |
67 (4.8) |
<0.001 |
Clinical forms, n (%) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
PTB+ |
1216 (73.8) |
845 (69.5) |
6 (0.5) |
56 (4.6) |
239 (19.7) |
70 (5.7) |
<0.001 |
|
PTB- |
155 (9.4) |
86 (55.5) |
0 (0) |
16 (10.3) |
42 (27.1) |
11 (7.1) |
|
|
EPTB |
276 (16.8) |
190 (68.8) |
0 (0) |
14 (5.1) |
50 (3.7) |
22 (8.0) |
|
Type of patient, n (%) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New cases |
1505 (91.4) |
1026 (68.2) |
5 (0.3) |
81(5.4) |
295 (19.6) |
98 (6.5) |
0.27 |
|
Relapse |
119 (7.2) |
81(68.1) |
1 (0.8) |
5 (4.2) |
28 (23.5) |
4 (3.4) |
|
|
Failure |
3 (0.2) |
2 (66.7) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1 (33.3) |
|
|
Defaulters |
20 (1.2) |
12 (60) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
8 (40) |
0 (0) |
|
HIV serology, n (%) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Not done |
228 (13.8) |
113 (49.6) |
2 (0.9) |
20 (8.8) |
69 (30.3) |
24 (10.5) |
<0.001 |
|
Negative |
922/1419 (65) |
685 (74.3) |
4 (0.4) |
17 (1.8) |
166 (18) |
50 (5.4) |
<0.001 |
Positive | 497/1419 (35) | 323 (65.0) | 0 (0) | 49 (9.8) | 96 (19.3) | 29 (5.8) |
SD, standard deviation; EPTB, extra-pulmonary tuberculosis ; PTB+, smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis ; PTB-, smear negative pulmonary tuberculosis; cured + completed = therapeutic success.