Regarding cases of infectious diseases tuberculosis (TB) is
the most important cause of death and according to the DALY criteria, this
disease has the seventh position in global disease ranking. In this study, we
aim to determine the risk factors, which have a significant effect on the
treatment completion and mortality of TB patients.
This study is a retrospective cohort study. The sample is
made up of registered TB patients in the Isfahan Province from 2006 to 2011.
Information of the patients was collected from their files in health centers in
the Isfahan Province. Variables such as age, sex, weight, nationality,
residence, type of TB, imprisonment, human immunodeficiency virus, TB case were
measured. Descriptive statistics (including frequency, percentage, mean and
standard deviation) and statistical analysis (including Cox proportional hazard
model) were used.
The result showed that imprisonment and the TB case of pulmonary TB had
significant impacts on mortality of the patients, also in the case of treatment
completion, the TB case proved to have a significant impact on completion of the treatment. Type
of extra-pulmonary TB in extra-pulmonary TB patients also had an effect on
treatment completion.
We can conclude that factors such as age, imprisonment, TB
case and type of extra-pulmonary TB are effective on the treatment completion
and mortality of the patients. It may be useful for policy makers to make more
control of high-risk patients.
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2General Practitioner, Group Fighting Against Diseases, Isfahan Provincial Health Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran
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