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Table 2 MDR-TB treatment outcome extracted from the original studies

From: Current treatment of multidrug resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia: an aggregated and individual patients’ data analysis for outcome and effectiveness of the current regimens

First author and year of publication

Study area

Successful outcome

Unfavorable outcome

Not evaluated

Cured, n (%)

Treatment completed, n (%)

Total, N (%)

Died, n (%)

Lost to follow up, n (%)

Treatment failed, n (%)

Total, N (%)

Transfer out, n (%)

On treatment, n (%)

Total, N (%)

Baye et al., 2018 [20]

Northeastern Ethiopia

55 (39.0)

3 (2.1)

58 (41.1)

22 (68.8)

8 (15.6)

2 (1.4)

32 (22.7)

51 (36.2)

Girum et al, 2017 [21]

Southern Ethiopia

39 (25.3)

26 (16.9)

65 (42.2)

13 (8.4)

20 (13.0)

0

33 (21.4)

5 (3.2)

50 (32.5%)

56 (36.4)

Alene et al, 2017 [22]

Northwest Ethiopia

131 (54.1)

23 (9.5)

154 (63.6)

31 (12.8)

27 (11.2)

4 (1.7)

62 (25.6)

6 (2.5)

20 (8.3)

26 (10.7)

Mequanint et al., 2014 [23]

Central Ethiopia

274 (40.3)

148 (21.8)

422 (62.1)

105 (15.4)

9 (1.3)

14 (2.1)

128 (18.8)

8 (1.2)

122 (17.9)

130 (19.1)

Tolera et al., 2018 [24]

Eastern Ethiopia

86 (52.4)

22 (13.4)

108 (65.9)

37 (22.6)

17 (10.4)

2 (1.2)

56 (34.1)

0

0

0

Meressa et al., 2015 [25]

Central and Northwest Ethiopia

396 (64.7)

85 (13.9)

481 (78.6)

85 (13.9)

36 (5.9)

10 (1.6)

131 (21.4)

0

0

0