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Table 1 Independent variables under study

From: Survival time among patients who were diagnosed with tuberculosis, the precocious deaths and associated factors in southern Brazil

Categories

Independent variables

Classes

Socio-demographic characteristicsa

Gender

Female

Male

Age

Continuous

Ethnicity

White/oriental

Afrodescendant

Educational level

8 years of schooling or more

7 years of schooling or less

Marital status

Married/common-law marriage

Single/widowed/separated or divorced

Comorbiditiesb

Type of entry

New case

Re-entry or retreatment

Institutionalized

No

Yes

Examination: X-ray

Normal

Yes, suspicious results

Clinical category

Pulmonary

Extrapulmonary

Aggravation—use of alcohol

No

Yes

Aggravation—diabetes mellitus (DM)

No

Yes

Information of the diagnosis and treatmentb

Examination: bacilloscopy

Negative

Positive

Culture

Negative

Positive

Medication used: rifampicin

Yes

No

Medication used: isoniazid

Yes

No

Medication used: pyrazinamide

Yes

No

Medication used: ethambutol

Yes

No

Medication used: streptomycin

Yes

No

Medication used: other drugs (second-line TB drugs)

Yes

No

Supervised treatment—DOTS

Yes

No

  1. aVariables from the first database Mortality Information System Sistema de Informação sobre Mortalidade (SIM)
  2. bVariables from the second database Sistema de Informação de Agravos de Notificação (SINAN)