title: [Cohort evaluation of treatment of smear positive tuberculosis patients].
abstract: Direct observed treatment short course (DOTS) was introduced by National Tuberculosis (TB) Programme in our country in 1994.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  to evaluate treatment outcome of tuberculosis patients by patient cohort group defining.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study comprised 67 smear positive TB patients in 1998 and 86 patients in 1999. All patients were admitted in the University Clinic Sarajevo.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Cure rate was achieved in 85.1% patients in 1998 and 91.8% in 1999.3% patients completed treatment in 1998 and 1.2% patients in 1999. Treatment success rate (cure rate and rate of completed treatment) was achieved in 88.1% patients in 1998 and 93% patients in 1999. Failure rate was 1.5 in 1998 and no failure was registered as treatment outcome in 1999. Treatment interrupted rate was registered in 5.9 patients in 1998 and 2.3 in 1999. There were no patients characterized as transferred out in 1998, but the rate of these patients in 1999 was 1.2 . Mortality rate was 4.5 in 1998 and 3.5 in 1999.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  DOTS expansion has contributed the increased percentage of successfully cured patients.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za Plućne Bolesti I TBC Podhrastovi, Klinicki Centar Univerziteta U Sarajevu.
authors.forename: Belma
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Paraliia
mesh_terms: D023801:Directly Observed Therapy; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy*