ArticleThe Pan African medical journal2019
Factors associated with unfavourable tuberculosis treatment outcomes in Lusaka, Zambia, 2015: a secondary analysis of routine surveillance data.
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Abstract
introductionFocus has been put on strengthening surveillance systems in high tuberculosis (TB) burden countries, like Zambia, however inadequate information on factors associated with unfavourable TB treatment outcomes is generated from the system. We determined the proportion of tuberculosis treatment outcomes and their associated factors.
methodsWe defined unfavourable outcome as death, lost-to-follow-up, treatment-failure, or not-evaluated and favourable outcome as a patient cured or completed-treatment. We purposively selected a 1
resultsWe included a total of 1,724 registered TB patients, from one urban clinic 694 (40%), a 1
conclusionUnfavourable TB treatment outcomes were high in the selected facilities. We recommend special attention to TB patients who are > 59 years old, TB relapses and TB / HIV co-infected. The national TB programme should strengthen close monitoring of health facilities in increasing efforts aimed at evaluating all the outcomes. Studies are required to identify and test interventions aimed at improving treatment outcomes.
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