Table 5.

Comparison of tuberculosis diagnostic outcomes between the hot spot and non–hot spot areas.

	Hot spot area	Non–hot spot area	P value
Patients screened per local government area (per 10,000 people), n	549.80	413.97	N/Aa
Presumptive cases evaluated for tuberculosis (per 10,000 people), n	35.79	28.75	N/A
All tuberculosis cases diagnosed (per 10,000 people), n	3.76	2.14 (95% CI 0.96-2.45)	<.001
Precision	0.105	0.075	N/A
Number needed to screen (per 10,000 people), n	146.22	193.44	N/A
Number needed to test (per 10,000 people), n	9.51	13.43	N/A

^aN/A: not applicable.