Table 1.
Definitions used in the study.
Fig 1.
Overview of linkage to TB care and death of patients diagnosed with TB in Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020 (n = 13,736).
*proportions do not denote a case fatality ratio but the proportion of the deaths to have occurred based on the timing of death. ILTFU: initial loss to follow up.
Fig 2.
Overview of linkage to TB care and death of patients, stratified by level of care at which TB diagnosis was made, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020 (n = 13,736).
*proportions do not denote a case fatality ratio but the proportion of the deaths to have occurred based on the timing of death. ILTFU: initial loss to follow up; PHC: primary health care.
Table 2.
Overall clinical and demographic characteristics of patients diagnosed with TB, stratified by linkage to TB services at 30 days, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020 (n = 13,736).
Table 3.
Mortality amongst initial loss to follow up TB patients, stratified by level of care at which diagnosis was made, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020 (n = 2,742).
Table 4.
Univariate and multivariable logistic regression model with predictors of death among diagnosed TB patients, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020 (n = 13,736*).
Fig 3.
Kaplan Meier survival curves for initial loss to follow up TB patients, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020, stratified by HIV status.
ART: antiretroviral therapy; HIV-: HIV-negative; HIV+: HIV-positive; TB: tuberculosis.
Fig 4.
Kaplan Meier survival curves for initial loss to follow up TB patients, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020, stratified by level of care of diagnosis and treatment initiation status.
TB: tuberculosis.
Fig 5.
Kaplan Meier survival curves for initial loss to follow up TB patients, Cape Town, South Africa, October 2018-March 2020, stratified by patients known to primary health care or hospital status.
PHC: primary health care; TB: tuberculosis.