Cascade of care and time to diagnosis and treatment of Xpert rifampicin-resistant TB patients.

Values in the bars indicate number (percentages). *12 of 118 with a failed result were imputed as Xpert positive and assigned the censored time of 180 days. **Pre-treatment examination included blood & urine test, HIV test, chest X-ray, audiometry and psychiatric assessment. ***Data were only available for 201 patients. Median (IQR) times between: microscopic TB diagnosis and patient presentation for Xpert examination (a), Xpert examination and Xpert result (b), Xpert result and visit for pre-treatment assessment (c), pre-treatment assessment and initiation of second line treatment (d), microscopic TB diagnosis and diagnosis of RR-TB (e), Xpert result and initiation of second line treatment (f), microscopic TB diagnosis and initiation of second-line treatment (g).