Tuberculosis treatment outcome among patients treated in public primary healthcare facility, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: a retrospective study

• Published in: Archives of public health = Archives belges de santé publique 2020-03, Vol.78 (1), p.12-12, Article 12
• Main Authors: Fentie, Atalay Mulu, Jorgi, Tadesse, Assefa, Tamrat
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adjusted odds ratio; Age; Analysis; Antitubercular agents; Clinical outcomes; Drug therapy; Family medical history; Health facilities; HIV; HIV patients; Medical personnel training; Medical records; Medical research; Mortality; Multinomial logistic regression; Patient outcomes; Patients; Primary health care; Primary health care level; Public health; Public health movements; Pulmonary tuberculosis; Regression analysis; Sociodemographics; Treatment outcomes; Tuberculosis; Variables
• ISSN: 0778-7367; 2049-3258; 2049-3258
• DOI: 10.1186/s13690-020-0393-6

Despite the availability of effective drugs, tuberculosis remains a major public health problem that predominantly affects low- and middle-income countries. This study aimed to assess tuberculosis treatment outcomes among patients treated at one of the primary health care levels in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. An institutional-based retrospective cross-sectional study was conducted at a tuberculosis clinic in public primary healthcare facility. The study populations were all patients with tuberculosis who had been completed their treatment course in the center from July 2014 to July 2018. After getting Ethical clearance and permission from the health center, trained data collectors working in the center were recruited. The collected data were checked for completeness every day by the principal investigators. Data were edited, cleaned, and analyzed using SPSS version 25. Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data while multinomial logistic regression was employed to explore associations among variables of interest, and