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

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Table 4 Treatment outcomes of TB cases treated in Adama City, 2014/15–2017/18

Treatment Outcome^a		Outside Adama	Inside Adama	Total
Cured	No.	98	417	515
Cured	%	34%	28%	30%
Treatment completed	No.	175	962	1137
Treatment completed	%	61%	65%	65%
Treatment failure	No.	2	11	13
Treatment failure	%	1%	1%	1%
Died	No.	8	44	52
Died	%	3%	3%	3%
Lost to follow-up	No.	4	10	14
Lost to follow-up	%	1%	1%	1%
Moved to MDR-TB^b register	No.	2	4	6
Moved to MDR-TB^b register	%	1%	0%	0%
Total	No.	289	1484	1737
Total	%	100%	98%	100%

Treatment success rate was 95% (34% cured and 61% treatemen comlplted) for those from outside Adama and 93% (28% cured and 65% treatemen comlplted) for those from inside Adama city, with no statistical significance, p = 0.45
^aComparison of treatment outcome was not statistically signficant, X² = 35, p-value = 0.243
^bMDR-TB Multi drug resistant tuberculosis

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