Table 2

Patterns of tuberculosis (TB)-related clinical services received by the 421 retreatment patients

CharacteristicsValue
Numbers of previous treatments, median (range)1 (1–9)
 1294 (69.8)
 >1127 (30.2)
Provider of last treatment
 TB dispensary/TB hospital202 (48.0)
 General hospital/others219 (52.0)
Outcome of last treatment
 Unknown90 (21.4)
 Cured100 (23.8)
 Treatment completed17 (4.0)
 Failure25 (5.9)
 Treatment uncompleted178 (42.3)
 Transferred out9 (2.1)
 Data missing2 (0.5)
Length of treatment with rifampin and isoniazid (n=420)
 ≤90 days151 (36.0)
 91∼180 days152 (36.2)
 181∼240 days41 (9.8)
 >240 days76 (18.1)
  • Data are numbers (%) of patients unless otherwise indicated.