Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes and Associated Factors Among Patients Treated at Woldia General Hospital in Northeast Ethiopia: An Institution-Based Cross-Sectional Study

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Table 1 Socio-Demographic and Clinical Profile of Tuberculosis Patients Registered at Woldia General Hospital, from 2015 to 2018 (2019)

Variables		Frequency	Percentage
Age	< 24 years	84	31.1
	24–44 years	104	38.5
	>45 years	82	30.4
Weight	<30 kg	48	17.8
	30–50kg	105	38.9
	>50kg	117	43.3
Residence	Urban	103	38.1
	Rural	167	61.9
Year of registration	2015	55	20.4
	2016	76	28.1
	2017	78	28.9
	2018	61	22.6
HIV status	Positive	50	18.5
	Negative	220	81.5
ART initiated	Yes	48	96
	No	2	4
CPT initiated	Yes	48	96
	No	2	4
	New	215	79.3
Patient category	Re-treatment	27	10.0
	Transfer in	28	10.3

Table 2 Treatment Outcomes of Tuberculosis Among Tuberculosis Patients Registered at Woldia General Hospital, from 2015 to 2018 (2019)

Treatment Outcome	Frequency	Percentage
Cured	126	46.7
Completed	220	81.5
Failure	14	5.2
Death	15	5.6
Transfer out	8	3
Loss to follow-up	15	5.6
Overall successful treatment	218	80.7

Table 3 Bivariable and Multivariate Analyses of Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes Among Tuberculosis Patients Registered at Woldia General Hospital, from 2015 to 2018 (2019)

Variables		Treatment Outcome		COR(95% CI)	AOR(95% CI)
		Successful N (%)	Unsuccessful N (%)
Age	<24 years old	71 (84.5)	13 (15.5)	2.3 (1.1–4.8)	4.7 (1.3–10.1)
	24–44 years old	89 (85.6)	15 (14.4)	0.9 (01–2.1)	1.9 (0.5–6.3)
	≥45 years old	58 (70.7)	24 (29.3)	1	1
Sex	Male	105 (72.9)	39 (27.1)	3.2 (1.6–6.4)	2.8 (2.1–4.8)
	Female	113 (89.7)	13 (10.3)	1	1
Weight	<30 kg	33 (68.8)	15 (31.2)	2.2 (1.0–4.8)	2.7 (0.7–10.3)
	30–50 kg	88 (83.8)	17 (16.2)	0.9 (0.5–1.9)	1.4 (0.4–4.3)
	≥50 kg	97 (82.9)	20 (17.1)	1	1
Residence	Urban	90 (87.4)	13 (12.6)	1	1
	Rural	128 (76.6)	39 (23.4)	2.1(1.1–4.2)	2.0 (0.7–6.0)
Year of registration	2015	32 (58.2)	23 (41.8)	1	1
	2016	61 (80.3)	15 (19.7)	0.1 (0.1–0.4)	2.0 (0.5–7.6)
	2017	71 (91.9)	7 (9.0)	0.2 (0.1–0.8)	0.7 (0.2–3.2)
	2018	54 (88.5)	7 (11.5)	0.3 (0.2–0.8)	4.8 (3.9–7.4)
HIV status	Negative	186 (84.5)	34 (15.5)	3.1 (1.6–6.0)	3.9 (1.4, 10.7)
	Positive	32 (64.0)	18 (36.0)	1	1
Type of TB	Pulmonary	160 (89.4)	37 (10.6)	1	1
	Extra pulmonary	58 (79.5)	15 (20.5)	1.1 (0.6–2.2)	0.3 (0.1–5.1)
Smear result	Positive	92 (78.6)	25 (21.4)	1.4 (0.7–3.0)	1.4 (0.5–3.9)
	Negative	68 (85.0)	12 (15.0)	1	1
Presumptive MDR TB	Yes	17 (73.9)	6 (26.1)	1.5 (0.6–4.1)	0.8 (0.2–3.9)
	No	201 (81.4)	46 (18.6)	1	1
Patient category	New	176 (81.7)	39 (18.3)	1	1
	Re-treated	18 (66.7)	9 (33.3)	2.3 (0.9 −5.4)	1.3 (0.4–5.1)
	Transfer in	24 (85.7)	4 (14.3)	0.8 (0.3–2.3)	0.5 (0.1–3.4)

Abbreviations: AOR, adjusted odd ratio; CI, confidence interval; COR, crude odd ratio; HUV, human immunodeficiency virus; MDR, multidrug resistance; TB, tuberculosis.