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 |