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Indicator name:
Tuberculosis treatment success rate
Data type:
Percent
Indicator Id:
4462
Topic:
Health service coverage
Rationale:
 Treatment success is an indicator of the performance of national TB programmes  
Definition:
The proportion of cases registered in a given year (excluding cases placed on a second-line drug regimen) that successfully completed treatment without bacteriological evidence of failure.
Disaggregation:
Case Type
Method of estimation:
The proportion of cases registered in a given year (excluding cases placed on a second-line drug regimen) that successfully completed treatment without bacteriological evidence of failure. All registered cases fall into one of the following five mutually exclusive categories: treatment success, failure, death, lost to follow-up, not evaluated (missing data on the outcome of treatment).
Preferred data sources:
Surveillance systems; All references to Kosovo should be understood to be in the context of the United Nations Security Council resolution 1244 (1999)
Patient record system
Expected frequency of data dissemination:
Annual
Expected frequency of data collection:
Annual
Contact person email:
tbdata@who.int
Name:
TB data enquirie
Links:
Definitions and reporting framework for tuberculosis - 2013 revision
Global tuberculosis control report
Indicator Metadata Registry List
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