Table 5. Treatment outcomes of migrant TB patients that were transferred out using web-based TBIMS, China (2014–2015).
| Treatment outcomes | N | (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Total | 7284 | (100.0) |
| Cured | 1820 | (25.1) |
| Treatment completed | 3679 | (50.6) |
| Failure | 24 | (0.3) |
| Died | 44 | (0.6) |
| Lost to follow up | 375 | (5.1) |
| Transferred to MDR cohort* | 10 | (0.1) |
| Others** | 156 | (2.1) |
| Not evaluated | 1176 | (16.1) |
TB–tuberculosis; TBIMS–tuberculosis information management system; MDR–multidrug resistant TB cohort
*we don’t have information if these patients were started on second line treatment, hence retained in the cohort [4]
**There were some patients that didn’t match any of WHO outcome definition, e.g. patients got excluded as TB during treatment; these were recorded as others in China’s TBIMS.