Table 1.

Status of the tuberculosis patient management under the national PPM tuberculosis control project in South Korea 2011–2017

	Year
	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Overall status of TB surveillance in South Korea
No. of total notification cases*	50,491	49,532	45,292	43,088	40,847	39,245	36,044
No. of new notification cases*	39,557	39,545	36,089	34,869	32,181	30,892	28,161
Treatment success rate of total notification cases, %†	-	-	-	80.9	80.1	84.3	83.8
New cases managed by the national PPM TB control project
No.	22,939	24,002	22,403	22,426	21,128	20,531	19,349
Proportion, %‡	58.0	60.7	62.1	64.3	65.7	66.5	68.7
No. of PPM hospitals§	97	116	116	122	127	128	127
No. of TB specialist nurses	121	204	219	180	200	200	200

^*Data are from the annual report on the notified TB patients in Korea [9].

^†Data are from the TB surveillance newsletter published by the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention10. The denominator excludes the multidrug-resistant TB cases.

^‡This indicator is calculated by dividing the number of new cases managed by the national PPM TB control project by the number of new notification cases in South Korea in each calendar year.

^§PPM hospitals include the National Medical Center and other regional medical centers operated by the local governments.

PPM: Public-Private Mix; TB: tuberculosis.