Table 4 |
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| Treatment outcomes of Transfer-in TB patients in comparison to the non Transfer-in cohort | |||
| TB treatment outcome | Type of Patient n (%) | p-value** | |
| Transfers-in (n=263) | Non Transfers-in* (n=7010) | ||
| Cured | 58 (22.1) | 1769 (25.3) | 0.581 |
| Treatment completed | 123 (46.8) | 4007 (57.3) | 0.020 |
| Defaulters | 5 (1.9) | 105 (1.5) | 0.943 |
| Deaths | 7 (2.7) | 585 (8.4) | 0.588 |
| Treatment failure | 0 (0) | 19 (0.3) | - |
| Not evaluated | 70 (26.6) | 525 (7.5) | <0.01 |
NB: Percentages may not always add up to 100 because of rounding off error.
*TB treatment outcomes were reported for only 7,010 non transfer-in patients out of 7,029 patients notified in Harare City for 2010 as obtained from the Zimbabwe National TB Programme.
** P-values are for the Fischers Exact test for associations.
Takarinda et al. BMC Public Health 2012 12:981 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-12-981
