Table 3 Treatment outcomes, Age, Gender, Type of TB, Patient category and HIV status of children
From: Treatment outcomes of childhood tuberculosis in Addis Ababa: a five-year retrospective analysis
Characteristics | Treatment outcomes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Success No (%) | Transfer out No (%) | Default No (%) | Death No (%) | Failure No (%) | Missing No (%) | Total No (%) | |
Gender | |||||||
Male | 188 (85.8) | 23 (10.5) | 2 (0.9) | 5 (2.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (0.5) | 219 (44.6) |
Female | 232 (85.3) | 32 (11.8) | 1 (0.4) | 4 (1.5) | 2 (0.7) | 1 (0.7) | 272 (55.4) |
Age group | |||||||
< 1 | 24 (72.7) | 9 (27.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | - | 33 (6.7) |
1–4 | 64 (86.5) | 7 (9.5) | 0 (0.0) | 3 (4.1) | 0 (0.0) | - | 74 (15.1) |
5–9 | 123 (88.5) | 12 (8.6) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.4) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (1.4) | 139 (28.3) |
10–14 | 209 (85.3) | 27 (11.0) | 3 (1.2) | 4 (1.6) | 2 (0.8) | - | 245 (49.9) |
Type of TB | |||||||
SPPTB | 34 (81.0) | 4 (9.5) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (4.8) | 1 (2.4) | 1 (2.4) | 42 (16.9) |
SNPTB | 175 (85.0) | 25 (12.1) | 1 (0.5) | 3 (1.5) | 1 (0.5) | 1 (0.5) | 206 (83.1) |
EPTB | 211 (86.8) | 26 (10.7) | 2 (0.8) | 4 (1.6) | 0 (0.0) | - | 243 (49.5) |
Category of TB | |||||||
New | 389 (85.7) | 48 (10.8) | 3 (0.7) | 8 (1.8) | 2 (0.4) | 4 (0.9) | 454 (92.5) |
Relapse | 3 (60.0) | 2 (40.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | - | 5 (1.0) |
Failure | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.4) | - | 2 (0.4) |
Transfer in | 15 (78.9) | 2 (10.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (10.5) | 19 (3.9) |
Others | 4 (33.3) | 4 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (8.33) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (18.2) | 11 (2.2) |
HIV Status | |||||||
Positive | 58 (70.7) | 12 (14.6) | 12 (14.6) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | - | 82 (28.2) |
Negative | 196 (93.8) | 12 (5.7) | 1 (0.5) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | - | 209 (71.8) |
Unknown | 165 (82.5 | 31 (15.5) | 2 (1.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | - | 200 (40.7) |