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ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 24, Issue 4, Pages 631-640Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1010539511408067
Keywords
multidrug-resistant TB; MDR-TB; treatment outcome; sputum smear conversion; culture conversion; Kaplan-Meier curves; Cox proportional hazards; Nepal
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- Graduate School, Prince of Songkla University
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The purpose of this study was to examine factors associated with treatment outcome of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) cases in Nepal. A retrospective analysis of MDR-TB cases by demographic determinants and treatment was conducted. A total of 494 MDR-TB cases were registered from 2005 to 2008, with data obtained from the National Tuberculosis Center. Chi-squared tests were used to assess statistically the association between smear and culture conversion and treatment outcome. Determinants were analyzed with the use of Kaplan Meier curves and Cox proportional hazards models to generate estimates of the associations with the time to treatment outcome. Sputum conversion status and culture conversion status were positively associated with treatment outcome for MDR-TB. In a multiple Cox proportional hazards regression model, no determinants were found to be associated with time to cure.
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