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Table 1 Characteristics of TB patients in the Electronic TB Registry for Tracer and Non-Tracer subdistricts, Quarter 1 2007-Quarter 1 2009, South Africa

From: Impact of community tracer teams on treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients in South Africa

Characteristic

All Patients

 

Tracer

 

Non-Tracer

 
 

(n = 405, 673)

 

(n = 181,283)

 

(n = 224,390)

 
 

n

%

n

%

n

%

Case type

      

 New

303846

74.9

141166

77.9

162680

72.5

 Retreatment

101827

25.1

40117

22.1

61710

27.5

Province Totals^

      

 Eastern Cape

72371

17.8

37840

20.9

34531

15.4

 Free State

26920

6.6

9457

5.2

17463

7.8

 Gauteng

58036

14.3

32769

18.1

25267

11.3

 Kwazulu-Natal

85634

21.1

46517

25.7

39117

17.4

 Limpopo

19281

4.8

7126

3.9

12155

5.4

 Mpumalanga

26623

6.6

16083

8.9

10540

4.7

 Northern Cape

12541

3.1

5636

3.1

6905

3.1

 Northwest

30393

7.5

15436

8.5

14957

6.7

 Western Cape

73874

18.2

10419

5.7

63455

28.3

Treatment Outcomes*,‡^

      

 Defaulted

38783

9.6

20538

11.3

18245

8.1

 Cured

260219

64.1

108439

59.8

151780

67.6

 Completed

40276

9.9

20579

11.4

19697

8.8

 Failed

8885

2.2

4199

2.3

4686

2.1

 Died

34355

8.5

16330

9.0

18025

8.0

 MDR-TB

2033

0.5

581

0.3

1452

0.6

 Transferred

21122

5.2

10617

5.9

10505

4.7

  1. †The Electronic TB Registry (ETR) is the national TB surveillance database used in South Africa.
  2. *Treatment success was defined as having a registered treatment outcome of either ‘Cured’ or ‘Completed’ in the ETR (n = 300,495; Tracer n = 129,018; Non-Tracer n = 171,477).
  3. ‡Patients registered in the National ETR database with missing treatment outcome data (n = 18,275; Tracer n = 10,292; Non-Tracer n = 7,983) were considered as missing and were excluded from this analysis.
  4. ^Percentages total to greater than 100% due to rounding of percentage values.