Characteristics of eligible TB patients, stratified by inclusion or exclusion from two month and end of treatment analysis.

*<p>Mobile was defined as not living in the same district for at least three of the past six months.</p>#<p>MTB denotes <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>, and NTM denotes non-tuberculous mycobacteria.</p

Bivariate and multivariate measures of association for successful TB treatment and health care worker observed, family member observed, and self-administered therapy.

*<p>HCW denotes health care worker directly observed therapy; family denotes family member directly observed therapy, and SAT denotes self-administered treatment (i.e., no directly observed therapy).</p>#<p>For outcomes at two months, patients “on treatment” are considered successfully treated.</p

Characteristics of pulmonary TB patients eligible for analysis, stratified by type of observer during first two months of TB treatment.

*<p>Mobile was defined as not living in the same district for at least three of the past six months.</p>#<p>MTB denotes <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i>, and NTM denotes non-tuberculous mycobacteria.</p>@<p>Patients who were on treatment, but had missing data about whether their sputum smears were positive or negative.</p