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. 2021 May 6;2021(5):CD012972. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012972.pub2

3. Summary of trial results: proportion of those treated for tuberculosis who had a successful outcome.

Study Country Design Setting Smear (n/N) Xpert (n/N) OR (95% CI)
Cox 2014 South Africa cluster‐RCT primary health clinic 176/224 (79%) 215/268 (80%) 1.11 (0.67 to 1.84) 
Agizew 2019a Botswana stepped‐wedge public HIV clinics 36/57 (63%) 136/199 (68%) 1.26 (0.64 to 2.42)
Durovni 2014 Brazil stepped‐wedge primary health clinic 1276/1840 (68%) 1571/2214 (70%) 1.09 (0.94 to 1.27) 

CI: confidence interval
RCT: randomized controlled trial
OR: odds ratio

Agizew 2019a defined an unsuccessful outcome as default, all‐cause death, failure, or transfer, Durovni 2014 and Cox 2014 also included a small number of participants who were not evaluated. 

We calculated the OR for Cox 2014 from the number in each arm. The CI took clustering by week into account, by inflating the standard error of log(OR) by a factor in line with the other outcomes in the same study.