Research Article
Treatment Outcome of Tuberculosis Patients at Enfraz Health Center, Northwest Ethiopia: A Five-Year Retrospective Study
Table 4
Trends of TB type and treatment outcomes of TB patients at Enfraz heath center 2007–2011.
| | Treatment outcomes and TB type | Year | Total | | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
| | Category at start | | | | | | | | New | 62 (15.2)* | 88 (21.6) | 98 (24.1) | 77 (18.9) | 82 (20.1) | 407 (97.6) | | Relapse | 1 (16.7) | 1 (16.7) | 1 (16.7) | 2 (33.3) | 1 (16.7) | 6 (1.4) | | Defaulter | 0 (0.0) | 1 (33.3) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (66.7) | 3 (0.7) | | Failure | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (100.0) | 1 (0.2) | | Tuberculosis type | | | | | | | | Smear-positive PTB | 17 (17.9) | 20 (21.1) | 26 (27.4) | 16 (16.8) | 16 (16.8) | 95 (22.8) | | Smear-negative PTB | 20 (14.2) | 30 (21.3) | 26 (18.4) | 29 (20.6) | 36 (25.5) | 141 (33.8) | | EPTB | 26 (14.4) | 40 (22.1) | 47 (26.0) | 34 (18.8) | 34 (18.8) | 181 (43.4) | | Treatment outcomes | | | | | | | | Treatment success | 55 (88.7) | 80 (95.2) | 94 (100.0) | 71 (93.4) | 79 (94.0) | 379 (94.8) | | Dead | 3 (4.8) | 3 (3.3) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (5.1) | 4 (4.7) | 14 (3.4) | | Failure | 2 (3.2) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 2 (0.5) | | Default | 2 (3.2) | 1 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.3) | 1 (1.2) | 5 (1.2) | | Transferred out | 1 (1.6) | 6 (6.7) | 5 (5.1) | 3 (3.8) | 2 (2.3) | 17 (4.1) |
| | Overall | 63 (15.1) | 90 (21.6) | 99 (23.7) | 79 (18.9) | 86 (20.6) | 417 (100.0) |
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Figures in parenthesis indicate percentage.
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