Research Article
Treatment Outcome and Associated Factors among Tuberculosis Patients in Debre Tabor, Northwestern Ethiopia: A Retrospective Study
Table 2
Patients characteristics and type of TB at Debre Tabor Health Center, 2008–2013.
| | Variables | Type of TB | | Smear positive PTB (%) | Smear negative PTB (%) | EPTB (%) | Total (%) |
| | Sex | | | | | | Male | 55 (28.0) | 71 (36.0) | 71 (36.0) | 197 (58.1) | | Female | 39 (27.5) | 42 (29.6) | 61 (43.0) | 142 (41.9) | | Residence | | | | | | Urban | 52 (25.2) | 70 (34) | 84 (40.8) | 206 (60.8) | | Rural | 42 (31.6) | 43 (32.3) | 48 (36.1) | 133 (39.2) | | Age group | | | | | | ≤24 | 24 (23.5) | 31 (30.4) | 47 (46.1) | 102 (30.1) | | 25–44 | 49 (35.0) | 42 (30.0) | 49 (35.0) | 140 (41.3) | | ≥45 | 21 (21.6) | 40 (41.2) | 36 (37.1) | 97 (28.6) | | HIV status | | | | | | Positive | 7 (16.3) | 14 (32.6) | 22 (51.2) | 43 (12.7) | | Negative | 60 (30.0) | 63 (31.5) | 77 (38.5) | 200 (59.0) | | Unknown | 27 (28.1) | 36 (37.5) | 33 (34.4) | 96 (28.3) | | Patient category | | | | | | New | 80 (26.5) | 101 (33.4) | 121 (40.1) | 302 (89.1) | | Relapse | 11 (84.6) | 2 (15.4) | 0 (00.0) | 13 (3.8) | | Failure | 2 (100%) | 0 (00.0) | 0 (00.0) | 2 (0.6) | | Transferred in | 1 (5.6) | 9 (50.0) | 8 (44.4) | 18 (5.3) | | Unknown | 0 (00.0) | 1 (25.0) | 3 (75.0) | 4 (1.2) | | Total | 94 (27.7) | 113 (33.3) | 132 (38.9) | 339 (100) |
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