Reasons for incomplete treatment were being lost to follow-up, having adverse treatment events, declining treatment, or moving out of Georgia during treatment.
Treatment failure as defined by the World Health Organization TB treatment outcome classification (i.e., M. tuberculosis–positive sputum cultures after &gt;4 months of treatment) is not recorded in the Georgia TB database.
We defined follow-up time for the Georgia population as the sum of the adult population in Georgia for each study year (2008–2019).
The median TB treatment duration was 224 days (IQR 189–289 days); 211 (7%) patients did not complete TB treatment.
However, it is possible that non–US-born TB treatment survivors emigrated from the United States more frequently than US-born TB treatment survivors, which might affect the mortality rate measurements because the NDI only captures deaths within the United States.

Mortality Rates after Tuberculosis Treatment, Georgia, USA, 2008–2019