Table 4.

Treatment outcome among newly treated smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis patients registered in 2010 and 2007 in Japan

	2007			2010
Outcome	N	%		N	%
Total	9,421	100.0		8,242	100.0
Cured	1,589	16.9		1,658	20.1
Completed	2,702	28.7		2,630	31.9
Died	1,729	18.4		1,711	20.8
Failed	93	1.0		61	0.7
Defaulted	474	5.0		235	2.9
Transferred out	297	3.2		248	3.0
Treatment for more than 12 months	1,130	12.0		819	9.9
Not evaluated	1,407	14.9		880	10.7
Treatment success	4,291	45.6		4,288	52.0