Research Article
Survival Analysis of Loss to Follow-Up Treatment among Tuberculosis Patients at Jimma University Specialized Hospital, Jimma, Southwest Ethiopia
Table 1
Demographic and clinical characteristics of TB patients initiating TB treatment at JUSH, Ethiopia.
| Variables | Frequency | Percent |
| Address of the patients | | | Urban | 472 | 92.5 | Rural | 38 | 7.5 | Sex | | | Male | 343 | 67.3 | Female | 167 | 32.7 | Smear result | | | Negative | 205 | 40.2 | Positive | 154 | 30.2 | Category (patient history) | | | New | 481 | 94.3 | Retreated | 13 | 2.5 | Return after default | 4 | 0.8 | Not documented | 12 | 2.4 | Types of TB | | | Smear-positive PTB | 153 | 30 | Smear-negative PTB | 205 | 40.2 | EPTB | 152 | 29.8 | HIV test/result | | | Negative | 354 | 69.4 | Positive | 114 | 22.4 | Unknown | 42 | 8.2 |
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Key: PTB: pulmonary tuberculosis, EPTB: extrapulmonary tuberculosis.
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