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Table 2 Five-year treatment outcomes of Tuberculosis by district, 2012-2016

From: Reflecting on tuberculosis case notification and treatment outcomes in the Volta region of Ghana: a retrospective pool analysis of a multicentre cohort from 2013 to 2017

Districts

Treatment Success

Unsuccessful

Unknown*

Cured + completed

Treatment failure

Died

Lost to follow up

Not documented

Transferred out

 

n(%) (95% CI)

n(%) (95% CI)

n(%) (95% CI)

n(%) (95% CI)

%

%

 Ketu South

885 (81.9) (79.5–84.2)

1 (0.1) (0.02–0.5)

140 (12.9) (11.0–15.1)

54 (5.1) (3.7–6.4)

4.0

0

 Keta

374 (85.0) (81.3–88.2)

0

66 (15.0) (11.8–18.7)

0

0

0

 South Tongu

146 (70.6) (63.8–76.6)

8 (3.9) (1.7–7.4)

43 (20.7) (15.5–26.9)

10 (4.8) (2.3–8.7)

0

0.1

 Nkwanta South

284 (84.8) (80.5–88.4)

0

48 (14.2) (10.8–18.5)

3 (1.0) (0.2–2.5)

2.3

0.6

 Hohoe

306 (82.1) (77.8–85.8)

8 (2.1) (0.9–4.2)

57 (15.3) (11.8–19.3)

2 (0.5)(0.07–1.9)

9.2

0.2

 Kpando

311 (85.2) (81.1–88.7)

0

48 (13.2) (9.9–17.1)

6 (1.6) (0.6–3.5)

0

1.0

 Kadjebi

279 (86.1) (81.9–89.7)

1 (0.3) (0.07–1.7)

31 (9.6) (6.7–13.3)

13 (4.0) (2.2–6.8)

0

1.2

 Krachi West

108 (90.7) (84.1–95.3)

1 (1.0) (0.02–4.6)

6 (5.0) (1.8–10.7)

4 (3.3) (1.0–8.3)

0

3.3

 Central Tongu

139 (71.3) (64.4–77.5)

6 (3.1) (1.1–6.6)

42 (21.5) (15.9–27.9)

8 (4.1) (1.8–7.8)

0

1.0

 Krachi East

140 (85.9) (79.6–90.8)

4 (2.5) (0.7–6.2)

5 (3.1) (1.0–7.0)

14 (8.5) (4.8–13.9)

12.7

1.1

All districts

2972 (82.5) (81.3–83.8)

29 (0.8) (0.5–1.2)

486 (13.5) (12.4–14.7)

114 (3.2) (2.6–3.8)

3.1

0.5

  1. *Not included in estimating treatment outcomes of patients