TABLE 4.

Treatment outcomes in relation to sex, age, type and category of EPTB in Bhutan, 2010

Variable	Starting TB treatment n	Treatment success n (%)	Died n (%)	Lost to follow-up n (%)*	Unknown outcome n (%)†
All patients	505	456 (90)	19 (4)	13 (2)	17 (4)
Sex
Male	251	231 (92)	13 (5)	3 (1)	4 (2)
Female	254	225 (89)	6 (2)	10 (4)	13 (5)
Age group, years
0–4	38	35 (92)	1 (3)	2 (5)	0
5–14	67	65 (97)	1 (2)	0	1 (1)
15–49	339	308 (91)	11 (3)	8 (2)	12 (4)
≥50	61	48 (79)	6 (10)	3 (5)	4 (6)
Type of EPTB
Lymph node	195	181 (93)	2 (1)	7 (4)	5 (2)
Pleural effusion	143	127 (89)	10 (7)	2 (1)	4 (3)
Abdominal/ascites	46	45 (98)	1 (2)	0	0
Spinal/bone/renal	28	26 (92)	1 (4)	0	1 (4)
Other‡	57	46 (81)	5 (9)	2 (3)	4 (7)
Site not recorded	36	31 (86)	0	2 (6)	3 (8)
Category
New	485	437 (90)	18 (4)	13 (3)	17 (3)
Recurrent	5	4 (80)	1 (20)	0	0
Not specified§	15	15 (100)	0	0	0

^*Defaulted.

^†A patient for whom there is no information about the treatment outcome.

^‡Miliary TB, meningitis, skin and other organ involvement.

^§A patient for whom there is no information about TB category.

EPTB = extra-pulmonary tuberculosis; TB = tuberculosis.