Outcomes from patients with presumed drug resistant tuberculosis in five reference centers in Brazil

BMC Infectious Diseases

Table 2 Description of time from Triage and different medical and laboratorial procedures among 110 presumed DR TB suspects

Sites (type of culture used)		To sputum collection	To treatment onset	To culture results	to DST results released by Lab	to DST results seen by physicians	To appropriate treatment
Messejana hospital	N	32	32	32	32	31	32
(culture and DST by MGIT)	Median	0	0	16.5	35	65	31
	IQR	0–0	0–10.7	10–41,2	27–58.7	36–86	0–55
Clemente Ferreira Institute	N	19	19	19	19	17	19
(culture and DST by MGIT)	Median	0	0	11	59	128	35
	IQR	0–1	0–0	9–18	26–115	57–159	35–99
Ary Parreiras hospital	N	15	14	15	15	15	15
(culture and DST by MGIT = 14)	Median	1	0	133	133	139	1
(culture and DST by PM = 1)	IQR	0–3	0–1	89–180	95–184	96–185	0–77
Helio Fraga Reference Center	N	17	17	17	13	9	17
(culture and DST by MGIT = 16)	Median	0	0	43	87	141	1
(culture and DST by PM = 1)	IQR	0–0	0–5	30.5–54.5	79–115.5	100–151	0–67.5
Partenon Hospital	N	27	27	27	27	24	27
(culture and DST by MGIT = 11)	Median	0	0	40	70	100.5	0
(culture and DST by PM = 16)	IQR	0–1	0–1	30–63	63–113	70.2–149.7	0–5
All sites	N	110	109	110	106	96	110
(culture and DST by MGIT = 92)	Median	0	0	32.5	69.5	97	1
(culture and DST by PM = 18)	IQR	0–1	0–1	14.7–63	35.7–111	64.2–143	0–41.2

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