Background Treatment outcomes for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis remain poor. We aimed
to estimate the association of treatment success and death with the use of individual drugs, …

… Studies reporting exclusively on extra-pulmonary MDR-TB were also excluded. At least one
treatment outcome had to meet our definition for success, failure, relapse, death or default (…

… treatment outcomes of microbiologically confirmed MDR-TB. They … ) of treatment success
from the treatment and outcome data of … incidence of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), …

… long-term outcomes of MDR/RR-TB, … treatment outcomes in patients with MDR/RR-TB is
likely a more objective parameter for treatment success than definitions which censor outcomes …

… A long-term success was a subject judged to be free of TB when the most recent information
… was primarily due to its high inverse correlation with the first variable selected into the model…

… To assess the effect of study characteristics on treatment success for MDR tuberculosis, we
… correlation to belief would be useful in the context of subjective clinical judgment in MDR …

… as “successful treatment outcomes”, whereas, died, treatment … Correlation was checked for
all those independent variables … If independent variables had high correlation with each other (…

… Treatment correlates of successful outcomes in pulmonary multidrug-resistant
tuberculosis: an individual patient data meta-analysis. Lancet. 2018;392(10150):821–34. …

… , all other treatment failure subjects grouped … successful treatment As in other trials, sputum
smear and culture at 2 months was only somewhat effective at predicting long-term outcome …

… This study compared the treatment outcomes of patients with MDR-TB before and after the …
Treatment correlates of successful outcomes in pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis: an …