Hazard Ratios for Death among Patients with HIV-infection and Culture-Confirmed Pulmonary TB Alive at Diagnosis and Initiated Therapy, United States, 1993–2006.

*Excluding patients reported after 2006 (536 smear-positive, 431 smear-negative), not documented as alive at diagnosis (191 smear-positive, 362 smear-negative), with no documented treatment (35 smear-positive, 112 smear-negative), or whose recorded outcome date preceded start of therapy or was missing (153 smear-positive, 110 smear-negative).†Other outcomes not represented as a column in this table include patients who moved during treatment or were lost (650 smear-positive, 484 smear-negative), were uncooperative with therapy (52 smear-positive, 45 smear-negative), or whose outcomes were otherwise not known (35 smear-positive, 30 smear-negative),§Adjusted for gender, age group, race/ethnicity, nationality, incarceration, alcohol and drug use, and previous TB; after adjustment, homelessness in the previous year was the only examined covariate that was no longer statistically significant.