Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Patient Characteristics in Rio de Janeiro, 2015–2022

Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of patients with drug-resistant tuberculosis, linked to their residence within spatial clusters of unfavorable treatment outcomes. The dataset was authored by Heitor Levy Ferreira Praça and published on figshare in May 2026. It covers cases from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, between 2015 and 2022.

Use Cases

• Identify clinical risk factors associated with unfavorable treatment outcomes based on patient characteristics.
• Analyze spatial patterns of drug-resistant tuberculosis based on residence within identified clusters.
• Model epidemiological trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis over the 2015–2022 period.

Strengths

• Data covers an 8-year period from 2015 to 2022.
• Dataset is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.

Limitations

• The dataset is very small at 9.5 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Likely contains clinical and epidemiological records from public health systems.

Time Range

2015–2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 17:31:13; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil