Table 4.

Reasons for loss to follow up among 111 PTB patients comprising diabetes tuberculosis treatment outcome cohort study undertaken at Gulab Devi Chest Hospital, Lahore.

Reasons	n (%)
Unknown*	44 (39.6)
Refusal/denial of phone call recipients to the existence of a TB patient in the household	20 (18.0)
Patients’ movement from a relatives’ house in the city where the hospital was located to their own residence in a village	13 (11.7)
Patients found TB drugs very strong, hence stopped having them	10 (9.0)
Patient had shifted to a private clinic for their treatment	7 (6.3)
Patient considered ATT ineffective, hence discontinued it	5 (4.5)
Patients proclaimed they don’t have TB, rather are under the influence of evil spell	5 (4.5)
Patients had terminated ATT because they considered homeopathic medicine more effective	4 (3.6)
Stopped ATT and started medicines for psychiatric illness	3 (2.7)

^*The contact numbers provided at recruitment to the researchers were incorrect/inaccessible and mobile phones were switched off, ATT = anti-tuberculosis therapy.