TY - JOUR AU - Tahir, Nafisa Batool AU - Qazi, Tahir Uddin AU - Muhammad, Sajid AU - Khattak, Aziz Marjan PY - 2014/11/03 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - TREATMENT OUTCOMES OF TUBERCULOSIS PATIENTS REGISTERED AT DOTS CENTRE KOHAT JF - KHYBER MEDICAL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL JA - Khyber Med Univ J VL - 6 IS - 3 SE - Original Articles DO - UR - https://www.kmuj.kmu.edu.pk/article/view/12159 SP - AB - <p><strong>OBJECTIVE</strong>: To find out the treatment outcomes of patients suffering from tuberculosis at DOTs centre.</p><p><strong>METHODOLOGY</strong>: This descriptive analytical study on tuberculosis and its treatment outcomes was conducted at DHQ Teaching Hospital Kohat from July 2008 to January 2011, over a period of two and a half years. Data was   interpreted by using SPSS version 14.</p><p><strong>RESULTS</strong>: In this study total number of 1760 patients are included, out of which 943(53.6%) are females and 817 males (46.4%). AFB positive patients are 43%, extra pulmonary 32.2% and sputum negative pulmonary cases are 24.6%. Treatment outcomes showed 574 cured, 726 treatments completed 422 defaults, 16 deaths and one referred to other treatment centre. Seven patients remained 3 AFB positive till 7<sup>th</sup> month.</p><p><strong>CONCLUSION: </strong>The proportion of favorable outcome was below the goal set by the WHO. Tuberculous case management needs to be investigated to reduce the chances of  high default rate.</p> ER -