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Table 5 Tuberculosis treatment outcomes for patients in intervention and control clinics

From: Economic support to improve tuberculosis treatment outcomes in South Africa: a pragmatic cluster-randomized controlled trial

Treatment outcome

Intervention group (%)

Control group (%)

(n = 2,107)

(n = 1,984)

Treatment completed

911 (43.2)

694 (35.0)

Cured

695 (33.0)

708 (35.7)

Defaulted

158 (7.5)

202 (10.2)

Treatment interrupted

0 (0.0)

15 (0.8)

Treatment failure

79 (3.8)

113 (5.7)

Multi-drug resistant TB

1 (0.1)

3 (0.2)

Died

151 (7.2)

137 (7.0)

Moved/transferred

107 (5.1)

99 (5.0)

No outcome data available

5 (0.2)

13 (0.7)