High urban tuberculosis case notification rates can be misleading: evidence from an urban setting in Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Table 3 Treatment outcomes of TB cases in Adama City, 2014/15–2017/18

Treatment outcome	PPOS^a	PNEG^b	EPTB^c	Total
Cured^*	515			515
Cured^*	88%			30%
Treatment completed^*	52	507	612	1137
Treatment completed^*	9%	95%	94%	65%
Treatment failure	2	3	8	13
Treatment failure	0%	1%	1%	1%
Died	9	20	23	52
Died	2%	4%	4%	3%
Lost to follow-up	3	6	5	14
Lost to follow-up	1%	1%	1%	1%
Moved to MDR-TB register	4	0	2	6
Moved to MDR-TB register	1%	0%	0%	0%
Total	585	536	650	1737
Total	100%	100%	100%	100%

^aPPOS Pulmonary smear positive TB cases ^bPNEG Clinically diagnosed sear negative pulmonary TB cases ^cEPTB Extra pulmonary TB cases
^*The mean treatment success rate (cure rate d + treatment competed rate) of PPOS cases was 97% (SE = 0.007) and PNEG was 95% (SE = 0.009), Z = 1.72 p-vale = 0.086 with no statistical significance. In comparison with EPTB compare to EPTB with treatment success rate of 94% 9SE = 0.009), Z = 2.52, p-value = 0.012 which is statistically significant

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