Table 3 Number of Follow up Clinic Visits during Intensive and Continuation Treatment Phases for New and Retreatment TB cases
From: Measuring workload for tuberculosis service provision at primary care level: a methodology
| Â | New Patient intensive phase | New patient continuation phase | Retr Patient intensive phase | Retr Patient continuation phase | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Â | n | % | n | % | n | % | n | % |
All three district | ||||||||
5x/week | 32 | 39% | 22 | 28% | 14 | 78% | 11 | 55% |
Weekly | 41 | 51% | 25 | 31% | 3 | 17% | 5 | 25% |
Bi-weekly | 8 | 10% | 31 | 39% | 1 | 6% | 4 | 20% |
Monthly | 0 | 0% | 2 | 3% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
Overall | 81 | 100% | 80 | 100% | 18 | 100% | 20 | 100% |
Average # visits (treatment phase) | 21 | 30 | 50 | 62 | ||||
Average # visits (treatment duration) | 51 | 112 | ||||||