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Table 4 Percent quarterly change in proportion of successful TB treatment outcomes stratified by province, Tracer vs. Non-Tracer subdistricts, Q1 2007-Q1 2009, South Africa

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

Province

Tracer

Non-Tracer

Quarterly change in success, %†

95% CI

P-value

Quarterly change in success, %†

95% CI

P-value

Eastern Cape

0.003

(−0.003, 0.009)

0.29

−0.005

(−0.011, 0.001)

0.08

Free State

−0.006

(−0.016, 0.005)

0.25

0.003

(−0.006, 0.011)

0.51

Gauteng

0.003

(−0.002, 0.009)

0.23

0.009

(0.003, 0.015)

<0.01

Kwazulu-Natal

−0.001

(−0.006, 0.005)

0.75

0.001

(−0.004, 0.007)

0.61

Limpopo

0.011

(−0.002, 0.024)

0.10

−0.001

(−0.010, 0.009)

0.86

Mpumalanga

0.015

(0.004, 0.025)

0.01

0.002

(−0.008, 0.012)

0.68

Northern Cape

0.016

(0.002, 0.029)

0.03

0.002

(−0.011, 0.015)

0.72

Northwest

0.007

(−0.002, 0.016)

0.11

−0.004

(−0.013, 0.005)

0.40

Western Cape

−0.002

(−0.015, 0.011)

0.78

0.003

(−0.002, 0.008)

0.21

  1. †Calculations of percent quarterly change included all smear positive TB patients registered with treatment outcome data in the ETR.
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