Treatment outcome of tuberculosis patients at Gondar University Teaching Hospital, Northwest Ethiopia. A five - year retrospective study

Table 4 Crude and Adjusted odds ratios for various factors that might affect treatment outcome among tuberculosis patients, Gondar University Teaching Hospital, 2003-2008.

Characteristics	Treatment success		Crude OR	95% CI	P-Value	Adjusted OR*	95% CI	P-Value
	Yes N (%)	No N (%)
Sex
Male	577(27.0)	1563(73.0)	1.00	---	---	1.00	---	---
Female	604(32.5)	1256(67.5)	1.303	1.137-1.493	<0.001	1.215	1.048-1.409	0.010
Address
Urban	867(42.0)	1195(58.0)	1.00	---	---	1.00	---	---
Rural	314(16.2)	1624(83.8)	0.266	0.230-0.309	<0.001	0.275	0.235-0.322	<0.001
Age group(yrs)
0-14	168(22.5)	579(77.5)	1.00	---	---	1.00	---	---
15-24	373(41.4)	528(58.6)	0.985	0.595-1.630	0.952	0.697	0.409-1.188	0.184
25-34	334(29.2)	808(70.8)	0.404	0.247-0.662	<0.001	0.437	0.259-0.736	0.002
35-44	176(26.2)	496(73.8)	0.691	0.423-1.129	0.140	0.770	0.458-1.293	0.323
45-54	74(24.9)	223(75.1)	0.805	0.486-1.333	0.400	0.832	0.489-1.418	0.499
55-64	34(23.9)	108(76.1)	0.861	0.501-1.480	0.588	0.941	0.531-1.667	0.834
≥ 65	22(22.2)	77(77.8)	0.908	0.493-1.672	0.756	0.934	0.490-1.780	0.835
TB type
Smear positive pulmonary TB	321(47.8)	350(52.2)	1.00	---	---	1.00	---	---
Smear negative pulmonary TB	564(25.7)	1632(74.3)	0.386	0.315-0.472	<0.001	0.430	0.345-0.535	<0.001
Extrapulmonary TB	296(26.1)	837(73.9)	1.023	0.869-1.205	0.782	1.019	0.856-1.213	0.831

TB = tuberculosis, OR = Odds Ratio, CI = Confidence interval, N = number, yrs = years
* = All the variables in the table are included in the model.

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