From: Tuberculosis in UK cities: workload and effectiveness of tuberculosis control programmes
PCT | Pulmonary cases with known sputum smear result (%) | Pulmonary cases with positive sputum smear (%) | ||||||
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Overall | 3-year average | Overall | 3-year average | |||||
2000-2009 | 2001-2003 | 2004-2006 | 2007-2009 | 2000-2009 | 2001-2003 | 2004-2006 | 2007-2009 | |
Birmingham East and North | 42.8 | 46.1 | 46.1 | 34.4 | 91.5 | 100.0 | 79.8 | 95.5 |
Heart of Birmingham Teaching | 38.4 | 39.7 | 45.5 | 31.3 | 89.3 | 100.0 | 75.9 | 95.1 |
Bradford and Airedale Teaching | 49.9 | 52.3 | 55.0 | 50.2 | 45.3 | 59.8 | 34.6 | 47.7 |
Leeds | 58.9 | 60.1 | 57.1 | 58.0 | 42.4 | 50.0 | 39.8 | 40.5 |
Leicester City | 65.0 | 72.5 | 62.5 | 59.5 | 50.6 | 51.1 | 54.9 | 44.8 |
Central Manchester | 59.9 | 64.9 | 69.3 | 51.3 | 62.5 | 58.0 | 66.0 | 66.7 |
Sandwell | 65.8 | 71.9 | 67.5 | 61.4 | 57.5 | 60.9 | 51.8 | 54.6 |
Region | ||||||||
London | 66.3 | 55.3 | 69.2 | 74.1 | 53.3 | 57.1 | 54.6 | 49.0 |