Table 1 Treatment outcomes of children with TB in Addis Ababa, 2007-2011
From: Childhood tuberculosis and its treatment outcomes in Addis Ababa: a 5-years retrospective study
Characteristics | Successfully treated | Poor treatment outcome | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Cured (n = 169) | Completed treatment (n = 2024) | Died (n = 83) | Failed (n = 6) | Defaulted (n = 99) | Transfer out (n = 184) | p-value | |
Age | |||||||
0–4 | 4(0.7) | 461(77.1) | 36(6.0) | 1(0.2) | 37(6.2) | 59(9.9) | <0.001 |
5–9 | 22(3.0) | 626(86.0) | 22(3.0) | 0(0) | 21(2.9) | 37(5.1) | |
10-14 | 143(11.4) | 947(75.7) | 26(2.1) | 5(0.4) | 41(3.3) | 89(7.1) | |
Sex | |||||||
Male | 59(4.9) | 989(81.5) | 37(3.0) | 2(0.2) | 45(3.7) | 82(6.7) | 0.02 |
Female | 109(8.1) | 1049(77.0) | 47(3.4) | 2(0.1) | 53(3.9) | 103(7.6) | |
Type of TB† | |||||||
PTB + * | 167(67.1) | 37(14.9) | 10(4.0) | 4(1.6) | 13(5.2) | 18(7.2) | <0.001 |
PTB-† | NA* | 944(85.4) | 35(3.2) | NA* | 47(4.3) | 79(7.1) | |
EPTB‡ | NA* | 1054(86.6) | 37(3.0) | NA* | 38(3.1) | 88(7.2) | |
Category | |||||||
New | 157(7.0) | 1782(78.9) | 65(2.9) | 3(0.1) | 90(4.0) | 161(7.1) | <0.001 |
Relapse | 7(41.2) | 9(52.9) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 1(5.9) | |
Treatment failure | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 1(100) | 0(0) | 0(0) | |
Defaulter | 0(0) | 3(100) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | 0(0) | |
Others | 0(0) | 94(83.9) | 8(7.1) | 0(0) | 2(1.8) | 8(7.1) | |
HIV | |||||||
Negative | 72(7.9) | 729(80.2) | 18(2.0) | 2(0.2) | 26(2.9) | 62(6.8) | <0.001 |
Positive | 17(5.2) | 260(79.8) | 22(6.7) | 2(0.6) | 8(2.5) | 17(5.2) | |
Unknown | 79(5.9) | 1044(78.2) | 43(3.2) | 0(0) | 64(4.8) | 105(7.9) | |