Table 3. Comparison of DR-TB treatment outcomes using simplified TBNET-based definitions v. WHO-based definitions (N=246).
| WHO-based outcome |
TBNET-based simplified outcome
|
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| Cure, n |
Treatment
failure, n |
LTFU, n | Death, n | Undeclared, n | Total, n | |
| First DR-TB treatment outcome* | ||||||
| Cure | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| Treatment completion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Treatment failure | 1 | 69 | 1 | 29 | 19 | 119 |
| LTFU | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Treatment interruption | 0 | 25 | 34 | 8 | 15 | 82 |
| Death | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 0 | 20 |
| Not evaluated | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 17 |
| Total | 3 | 105 | 39 | 60 | 39 | 246 |
| Most recent DR-TB treatment outcome† | ||||||
| Cure | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 23 |
| Treatment completion | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Treatment failure | 0 | 39 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 53 |
| LTFU | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 9 |
| Treatment interruption | 0 | 19 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 37 |
| Death | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 0 | 82 |
| Not evaluated | 2 | 26 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 42 |
| Total | 8 | 104 | 9 | 82 | 43 | 246 |
DR-TB = drug-resistant tuberculosis
TBNET = Tuberculosis Network European Trials Group
WHO = World Health Organization
LTFU = lost to follow-up
* First period when standardised DR-TB treatment was administered for a DR-TB diagnosis monodrug-resistant TB. diagnoses and treatment outcomes were not evaluated
† For patients who had only one outcome assigned in total, the first outcome is also presented as the most recent outcome.