Eliminating the category II retreatment regimen from national tuberculosis programme guidelines: the Georgian experience
Jennifer Furin, Medea Gegia, Carole Mitnick, Michael Rich, Sonya Shin, Mercedes Becerra, Peter Drobac, Paul Farmer, Rocio Hurtado, J Keith Joseph, Salmaan Keshavjee & Iagor Kalandadze
Volume 90, Number 1, January 2012, 63-66
Table 2. Treatment outcomes among patients on category II retreatment regimen in Georgia, 2007–2009
| Outcome | 2007 |
2008 |
2009 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | % | No. | % | No. | % | |||
| Successa | 1311 | 59 | 1178 | 52 | 1369 | 64 | ||
| Failed | 231 | 10 | 531 | 23 | 275 | 13 | ||
| Defaulted | 307 | 14 | 147 | 7 | 237 | 11 | ||
| Died | 164 | 7 | 118 | 5 | 84 | 4 | ||
| Transferred out | 103 | 5 | 102 | 5 | 58 | 3 | ||
| Unknown | 109 | 5 | 178 | 8 | 131 | 6 | ||
| Total | 2225 | 2254 | 2154 | |||||
a Combined cure and completion.