Table 3.
Characteristics and treatment outcome of TB patients at Debre Tabor, 2008–2013.
| Variables | Treatment outcome | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cured (%) | Completed (%) | Failed (%) | Defaulted (%) | Died (%) | Transferred out (%) | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 37 (18.8) | 103 (52.3) | 9 (4.6) | 6 (3.0) | 14 (7.1) | 28 (14.2) |
| Female | 30 (21.1) | 94 (66.2) | 3 (2.1) | 2 (1.4) | 5 (3.5) | 8 (5.6) |
| Residence | ||||||
| Urban | 37 (18.0) | 121 (58.7) | 8 (3.9) | 6 (3.0) | 15 (7.3) | 19 (9.2) |
| Rural | 30 (22.6) | 76 (57.1) | 4 (3.0) | 2 (1.5) | 4 (3.0) | 17 (12.8) |
| Age | ||||||
| ≤24 | 17 (16.7) | 63 (61.8) | 4 (3.9) | 3 (2.9) | 1 (1.0) | 14 (13.7) |
| 25–44 | 38 (27.1) | 80 (57.1) | 3 (2.1) | 2 (1.4) | 7 (5.0) | 10 (7.1) |
| ≥45 | 12 (12.4) | 54 (55.7) | 5 (5.2) | 3 (3.1) | 11 (11.3) | 12 (12.4) |
| Type of TB | ||||||
| Smear positive PTB | 65 (69.1) | 3 (3.2) | 10 (10.6) | 1 (1.1) | 2 (2.1) | 13 (13.8) |
| Smear negative PTB | 1 (0.9) | 93 (82.3) | 1 (0.9) | 0 (0.0) | 10 (8.8) | 8 (7.1) |
| Extrapulmonary TB | 1 (0.8) | 101 (76.5) | 1 (0.8) | 7 (5.3) | 7 (5.3) | 15 (11.4) |
| HIV status | ||||||
| Positive | 5 (11.6) | 30 (69.8) | 2 (4.7) | 2 (4.7) | 2 (4.7) | 2 (4.7) |
| Negative | 43 (21.5) | 117 (58.5) | 9 (4.5) | 3 (1.5) | 7 (3.5) | 21 (10.5) |
| Unknown | 19 (19.8) | 50 (52.1) | 1 (1.0) | 3 (3.1) | 10 (10.4) | 13 (13.5) |
| Patient category at start | ||||||
| New | 59 (19.5) | 175 (57.9) | 8 (2.6) | 8 (2.6) | 17 (5.6) | 35 (11.6) |
| Relapse | 6 (46.2) | 2 (15.4) | 3 (23.1) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (15.4) | 0 (0.0) |
| Failure | 1 (50.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (50.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Transferred in | 1 (5.6) | 16 (88.9) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (5.6) |
| Unknown | 0 (0.0) | 4 (100.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) |
| Total | 67 (19.8) | 197 (58.1) | 12 (3.5) | 8 (2.4) | 19 (5.6) | 36 (10.6) |