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Table 1 Selected socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of 1341 TB patients enrolled into TB treatment and care at public health facilities, rural Ethiopia, during 2008–2015

From: Does time to loss to follow-up differ among adult tuberculosis patients initiated on tuberculosis treatment and care between general hospital and health centers? A retrospective cohort study

Characteristics

Categories

Health centers

General hospital

Total

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

Age (in years) (n = 1341)

Continuous

   

Sex (n = 1341)

Male

356 (58)

431 (59.3)

787 (58.7)

Female

258 (42)

296 (40.7)

554 (41.3)

Residence (n = 1340)

Urban

184 (30)

720 (99.0)

904 (67.4)

Rural

430 (70)

6 (0.8)

436 (32.6)

Baseline weight (n = 1341)

Continuous

   

Patient category (n = 1341)

New

544 (88.6)

621 (85.4)

1162 (86.7)

Relapse

14 (2.3)

19 (2.6)

35 (2.6)

Failure

1 (0.2)

2 (0.3)

3 (0.07)

Transferred in

55 (9.0)

85 (11.7)

141 (10.5)

Distance (n = 1340)

≤ 10 km

429 (69.9)

715 (98.3)

1144 (85.3)

> 10 km

185 (30.1)

12 (1.7)

196 (14.6)

Drug intensive (n = 1341)

RHZE

606 (98.7)

724 (99.6)

1330 (99.2)

RHZ

8 (1.3)

3 (0.4)

11 (0.8)

Drug continuous (n = 1322)

EH

232 (37.8)

225 (30.9)

461 (34.9)

EH and RH

14 (2.3)

21 (2.9)

45 (3.4)

RH

354 (57.7)

476 (65.5)

816 (61.7)

CPT provision at enrolment (n = 230)

Yes

63 (84.0)

138 (89.1)

201 (87.4)

No

12 (16.0)

17 (10.9)

29 (12.6)

TB type (n = 1341)

P/pose

236 (38.4)

227 (31.2)

463 (34.5)

P/negative

232 (37.8)

278 (38.2)

510 (38.0)

EP

146 (23.8)

222 (30.5)

368 (27.4)

Treatment phase (n = 1341)

Intensive

122 (19.9)

62 (8.5)

184 (13.7)

Continuous

492 (80.1)

665 (91.5)

1157 (86.3)

HIV status (n = 1341)

Reactive

90 (14.7)

144 (19.8)

234 (17.5)

Non-reactive

524 (85.3)

583 (80.2)

1107 (82.6)

ART status (n = 234)

On ART

42 (48.3)

140 (95.2)

182 (77.8)

Not on ART

45 (51.7)

7 (4.8)

52 (22.2)

  1. ART anti-retroviral therapy, CPT cotrimoxazole prophylaxis therapy, HIV human immune virus, TB tuberculosis