TABLE 2.

Potentially modifiable factors in adult inpatients with known or presumptive TB who died from January 2015 to August 2017, Mendi Provincial Hospital, Mendi, Papua New Guinea

Clinical characteristics	n (%)
Timeliness of TB diagnosis
Days from start of TB treatment to admission if TB was diagnosed before admission (n = 16), median [IQR]	60 [1–161]
Days from admission to start of TB treatment if TB was diagnosed after admission, (n = 50), median [IQR]	1 [0–4]*
Diagnosis and management of HIV
Known HIV-positive pre-admission	11 (12)
CD4 count performed during admission†	4 (36)
On antiretroviral therapy	2 (18)‡
On cotrimoxazole preventive therapy	4 (36)§
Tested for HIV during admission (n = 79)	36 (46)
Newly diagnosed with HIV during admission¶	1 (3)
Reviewed by a doctor <24 h prior to death
No	11 (12)
Yes	67 (74)
Not recorded	12 (13)

^* Data not available for 21 patients.

^† Denominator is the number of patients known to be HIV-positive on admission.

^‡ Results not recorded for nine patients.

^§ Results not recorded for seven patients.

^¶ Denominator is the number of patients tested for HIV during admission; results were not recorded for two patients.

TB = tuberculosis; IQR = interquartile range; HIV = human immunodeficiency virus.