Tuberculosis treatment outcomes among people living with HIV diagnosed using Xpert MTB/RIF versus sputum-smear microscopy in Botswana: a stepped-wedge cluster randomised trial

Table 5 Time-to-treatment between patients screened for tuberculosis using smear or Xpert MRB/RIF in Botswana

	Smear arm	Xpert MTB/RIF arm	p-value^a
	n = 42	n = 159	p-value^a
Median days to initiation of TB treatment^b, IQR	22 (3–51)	6 (2–17)	0.005

^a Mann-Whitney test
^b Median days – days from specimen collection date to anti-tuberculosis treatment initiation

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