Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes in Rio de Janeiro, 2015–2022

A dataset of factors associated with unfavorable treatment outcomes for drug-resistant tuberculosis cases. The data covers cases in the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro from 2015 to 2022. It was authored by Heitor Levy Ferreira Praça and is available as an XLS file.

Use Cases

• Identify risk factors for unsuccessful treatment based on patient characteristics.
• Analyze temporal trends in drug-resistant tuberculosis outcomes.
• Model the association between socio-economic or clinical variables and treatment failure.

Strengths

• Data covers a 7-year period (2015–2022) for longitudinal analysis.
• The dataset is focused on a specific geographic area (Municipality of Rio de Janeiro).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

figshare

Time Range

2015–2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 17:31:10; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Municipality of Rio de Janeiro