TB Treatment Outcome

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When a TB patient consumes all the doses under the prescribed regimen, then Treatment Outcome is declared for a Patient.

Treatment Outcome	Description
Cured	A TB patient who was microbiologically confirmed for TB at the beginning of treatment but who is smear or culture negative at the end of complete treatment
Treatment Complete	A TB patient who completed treatment without evidence of failure or clinical deterioration BUT with no record to show that the smear or culture results of biological specimen in the last month of treatment was negative, either because the test was not done or because the result is unavailable
Treatment Failure	A TB patient whose biological specimen is positive by smear or culture at the end of treatment A case of paediatric TB who fails to have microbiological conversion to negative status or fails to respond clinically/or deteriorates after 4 weeks of compliant intensive phase shall be deemed to have failed response provided alternative diagnoses/reasons for non-response have been ruled out.
Loss to Follow up	A TB patient whose treatment was interrupted continuously for one month or more
Not Evaluated	A TB patient for whom no treatment outcome is assigned
Treatment Regimen Changed	A TB patient who is on first line regimen and has been diagnosed as having TB(DR-TB) and switched to DR-TB regimen prior to being declared as failed
Died	A patient who has died during anti-TB treatment(due to any reason)