Treatment outcomes among tuberculosis patients at an urban health centre, Goa, India- eight year retrospective record based study

Abstract

Background: India contributes the highest TB burden globally and DOTS being the key strategy of RNTCP needs evaluation. The objective of this study was to assess treatment outcomes in TB patients on DOTS in terms of success rates in new and retreatment cases. Methods: Retrospective record based study was conducted at urban health centre, Santa Cruz Goa, India including 135 TB cases registered from January 2008 to January 2016 for DOTS. Data on treatment outcomes was analysed using appropriate statistical methods and percentages were calculated. Results: Out of total 135 TB cases, 64.4% had pulmonary while 35.6% had extra-pulmonary TB. Percentage of new cases was 84.4% whereas 15.6% were retreatment cases. Success rate (cure rate plus treatment completion rate) for new cases was 84.2% and for retreatment cases was 76.2% while the overall success rate was 83%. Conclusions: Successful treatment outcome was lower compared to the RNTCP norm.

A study of treatment outcomes of pulmonary tuberculosis and extrapulmonary tuberculosis patients in a tertiary care centre

“…12 TB is more common in male in our study which was similar to the study done by Veeramani G, Madhusudhan et al Since male are exposed more to external environment than female patients, there is increased burden on the male population. [13][14][15] The volume of TB cases diagnosed shows the burden on pulmonary cases and a large proportion of cases are sputum positive pulmonary tuberculosis.…”

Treatment outcomes of patients with tuberculosis in war affected region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

“…We found that the overall TB treatment success (i.e. having an outcome of cured or treatment completed) at the end of the treatment was 86.2%, which is similar to other resource-constrained countries such as India (81-83%) [23][24][25], Ethiopia (85.6%) [26], Nigeria (83.1%) [27], Uzbekistan (83%) [28], Thailand (78.5-87.5%) [29], and higher than war affected countries such as Somalia (81.8%) [30], Iran (83.1%) [31] and Afghanistan (77.7%) [32]. However, the treatment success rate in our study was lower than the treatment success rate reported in the previous studies in Pakistan [13,33].…”

Treatment outcomes of patients with tuberculosis in war affected region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan

“…In this study, the overall TB treatment success rate is higher from previous published studies in different countries; studies from India reported the overall treatment success rates were (81%) [23], (83%) [24], (84.21%) [25], and (86%) [26], in Thailand the success rate was (78.5%) for patients in the TB Case Management cohort, while the success rate is high (87.5%) for patients in the National Health Security Office cohort [27], Iran (83.1%) [28], Uzbekistan (83%) [29], Denmark (80.5%) [30], Malaysia (67.26%) [31], Ethiopia (85.6%) [32], Somalia (81.8%) [33], Nigeria (83.1%) [34], in…”