Abbreviated Name:
TB treatment success rate
Indicator Name:
Treatment success rate of new bacteriologically confirmed tuberculosis
Domain:
Health System Response/ Service coverage
Related Terms:
New case of tuberculosis, smear-positive tuberculosis, Tuberculosis (TB)
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.
Measurment Method:
New bacteriologically confirmed TB patients successfully treated (cured plus completed treatment) during a specified period of time.
Numerator:
New bacteriologically confirmed TB patients successfully treated (cured plus completed treatment) during a specified period of time.
Denominator
Total number of new bacteriologically confirmed TB cases registered for treatment during the same time period.
Estimation method:
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).
Disaggregation:
Age, bacteriological confirmation status, drug resistance status (drug-susceptible and treated with first-line drugs, drug-resistant and treated with a second-line regimen), HIV-status, previous treatment history (new and relapse, previously treated excluding relapse), sex
Primary data sources:
TB register health facility registry systems
Alternate data sources:
NA
Measurment frequency:
Quarterly and annually
