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TB Treatment Outcome
Learning ObjectivesTreatment outcome of TB regimen.
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When a TB patient consumes all the doses under the prescribed regimen, then Treatment Outcome is declared for a Patient.
| Treatment Outcome | Description |
| Cured | A TB patient who was microbiologically confirmed for TB at the beginning of treatment but who is smear or culture negative at the end of complete treatment |
| Treatment Complete | A TB patient who completed treatment without evidence of failure or clinical deterioration BUT with no record to show that the smear or culture results of biological specimen in the last month of treatment was negative, either because the test was not done or because the result is unavailable |
| Treatment Failure |
A TB patient whose biological specimen is positive by smear or culture at the end of treatment A case of paediatric TB who fails to have microbiological conversion to negative status or fails to respond clinically/or deteriorates after 4 weeks of compliant intensive phase shall be deemed to have failed response provided alternative diagnoses/reasons for non-response have been ruled out. |
| Loss to Follow up | A TB patient whose treatment was interrupted continuously for one month or more |
| Not Evaluated | A TB patient for whom no treatment outcome is assigned |
| Treatment Regimen Changed | A TB patient who is on first line regimen and has been diagnosed as having TB(DR-TB) and switched to DR-TB regimen prior to being declared as failed |
| Died | A patient who has died during anti-TB treatment(due to any reason) |
Treatment success is considered when a TB patient either Cured or Treatment completed is accounted in treatment success
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The TB Preventive Treatment…
drharshshah Tue, 21/03/2023 - 16:55
The TB Preventive Treatment Completion outcome parameters needs to be added somewhere. We may have to create entire new pages for PMTPT or to include where it fits, I guess. I have not added PMTPT outcome parameters here. It will confuse the reader.