| Abstract |
Background: Adhering to treatment is the lion's share rests with the patients. There are others who share an equal responsibility so that the patients can adhere to the treatment regimen and also enhance compliance ie. health care workers, public health officials, governments and communities, all share the responsibility and provide a range of support services that are needed to continue and finish the treatment. Objectives: To study factors influencing treatment outcome of New Sputum Smear Positive Tuberculosis patients in Tuberculosis Unit (TU) Khammam. Materials & Methods: The present study is a prospective study of patients registered under RNTCP in Khammam TU. All the new sputum smear positive patients registered in Khammam TU during the second and third quarters of 2009 were enrolled as study subjects. A total of 413 patients were registered.Results: Of the enrolled patients cure rate was 85.47%, default rate was 4.84%, failure rate was 4.84%, treatment completed rate was 0.48% and death rate was 4.36%. Conclusion: Socio demographic, Initial sputum grading, comorbidities, habits influence the treatment outcome of tuberculosis patients who are on Directly Observed Treatment Short course chemotherapy.
KEYWORDS: Patients, Treatment, Tuberculosis
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