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Background In Ethiopia tuberculosis is the leading causes of morbidity, the incidence of all forms of TB in the Ethiopia was 379/100000 population which is the second on the Africa continent. There are high discrepancies in the result of treatment outcome being reported from the different region of the country with frequent poor treatment outcomes particularly from the southern Ethiopia. Thus, this study aims to assess tuberculosis treatment outcomes and associated factors among tuberculosis patients in Bule Hora general hospital, southern Ethiopia Methods Facility based retrospective cross-sectional document review of 349 patients was conducted to assess the TB treatment outcome and associated factors for TB patients’ document registration. Data was entered into the computer using Epi-data software version 3.2 and exported to SPSS software version 22 for analysis. Bivariate and multivariate analysis with 95% confidence intervals were employed to infer associations between the independent and dependent variables. Result The documents of 349 tuberculosis patients were reviewed. Among this patients, 87.9% were successfully treated whereas 12.1% of the patients were unsuccessfully treated. From this, 53.4% and 34.5% patients were cured and completed the treatment, respectively, whereas 3.7%, 5.8%, and 2.6% patients were died, treatment failure, and defaulted, respectively during the follow-up. The tuberculosis patients who were screed positive for HIV/AIDS were 86% less likely to had a successful TB treatment outcome than HIV/AID negative patients. Conclusion The TB treatment outcome for the present study was 87.9%, which was lower than national achievement in 2017 (96%) and global target (>=90%) which required improvement. The higher unsuccessful TB treatment outcomes among HIV positive patients suggests the need to strengthen adherence education and supervision. |
