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Table 6 Treatment outcome of TB patients in the clinical trial, during two years prior to the clinical trial, and during the two years following the clinical trial

From: People–centred care versus clinic–based DOT for continuation phase TB treatment in Armenia: a cluster randomized trial

Treatment outcome

Year

2012a n (%)

2013a n (%)

2014, intervention n (%)

2014, control n (%)

2015a n (%)

2016a n (%)

Success

511 (82.4%)

513 (86.2%)

206 (90.8%)

195 (93.3%)

421 (81.9%)

310 (81.8%)

Lost to follow-up

78 (12.6%)

53 (8.9%)

16 (7.0%)

10 (4.8%)

65 (12.6%)

46 (12.1%)

Failure

6 (1.0%)

9 (1.5%)

1 (0.4%)

0 (0.0%)

7 (1.4%)

6 (1.6%)

Death

22 (3.5%)

16 (2.7%)

3 (1.3%)

3 (1.4%)

21 (4.1%)

9 (2.4%)

Not evaluated

3 (0.5%)

4 (0.7%)

1 (0.4%)

1 (0.5%)

0 (0.0%)

8 (2.1%)

  1. aAmong TB patients corresponding to the same eligibility criteria applied in the clinical trial (Drug sensitive pulmonary TB patients starting continuation phase of TB treatment in the outpatient clinics)