Treatment outcomes were documented as cured, completed treatment, defaulted, treatment failure, transferred out and died according to standard World Health Organization (WHO) definitions.[15] Each subject was followed for total period of 6 months.
Controls were those who began therapy and were cured, completed or failed treatment.
These variables included TB incidence rate, case detection rate, treatment rates (category I: cured, completed, failure, default and success), and retreatment rates (category II: cured, completed, failure, default, and success).
Eligible controls were those persons diagnosed with TB who began therapy and were cured, completed or failed treatment.
Each outcome of interest (default, success, cured, completed, failed, and died) was evaluated separately, using the log of the proportion of each outcome at each time point.
Because of small sample size, we were only able to perform univariate, not multivariate, analysis for the 57 culture-positive patients who had an outcome of cured, completed, failed, or died.
In univariate analysis restricted to the 290 patients with an outcome of cured, completed treatment, failed treatment, or died, we analyzed several factors associated with death during TB treatment.
The proportion of patients with treatment outcomes registered in the National ETR as cured, completed, defaulted, failed, and died were each evaluated separately as the primary impact indicators for comparing patients from tracer and non-tracer subdistricts.
Throughout history, many attempts to cure complete impotence have been recorded.
Three faces wears the doctor: when first sought An angel's; and a god's the cure half-wrought; But when, the cure complete, he seeks his fee, The devil looks less terrible than he.
