CHDS faculty Nicolas Menzies and colleagues found that geographic differences across states and municipalities in Brazil played a larger role than patient-level factors in explaining whether patients successfully completed tuberculosis (TB) treatment. Their study results were recently published in BMJ Global Health.
Using Brazil’s National Disease Notification Information System, the investigators analyzed treatment outcomes for 259,449 individuals newly diagnosed with TB between 2015 and 2018. They used statistical modeling methods to quantify the extent to which unsuccessful treatment outcomes were driven by patient-level and area-level factors. The authors called for further research to identify strategies to strengthen TB care, reduce geographic disparities, and improve treatment outcomes.
Learn more: Read the publication, Systematic Differences in TB Treatment Outcomes across Brazil by Patient- and Area-Related Factors: An Analysis of National Disease Registry Data
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