Data for "Where are patients missed in the tuberculosis diagnostic cascade? A prospective cohort study in Ghana"

The dataset contains 428 records with 30 variables. Each row refers to a study participant and contains variables of the type of health facility attended, age, educational level, place of residence, socioeconomic status, symptoms of TB (cough, fever, night sweat and weight loss), duration of symptoms, number of symptoms, HIV status, history of diabetes, body mass index, Karnofsky score, ever treated for TB, stigma and distance from residence to health facility.

There are also variables on whether a sputum sample was submitted for the test, results received, test results, started TB treatment, duration from test request to sputum submission, reason for not submitting a sputum sample, number of health care providers visited included for each participant.