ArticleBMC health services research2015
A scoping review of cost-effectiveness of screening and treatment for latent tubercolosis infection in migrants from high-incidence countries.
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- The Global Expansion of LTBI Screening and Treatment Programs: Exploring Gaps in the Supporting Economic Evidence.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- A Systematic Review of Economic Evaluations of Active Tuberculosis Treatments.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Review
- Infectious Diseases among Refugee Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2019Review
- Building a European database to gather multi-country evidence on active and latent TB screening for migrants.International journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases · 2019Article
- Alternative service models for delivery of healthcare services in high-income countries: a scoping review of systematic reviews.BMJ open · 2019Article
- Infectious Diseases in Internationally Adopted Children and Intercountry Discrepancies Among Screening Protocols, A Narrative Review.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2019Review
- The Prevalence and Risk Factors of Latent Tuberculosis Infection among Health Care Workers Working in a Tertiary Hospital in South Korea.Tuberculosis and respiratory diseases · 2018Article
- Screening for neurocysticercosis in internationally adopted children: yield, cost and performance of serological tests, Italy, 2001 to 2016.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2018Article
- Defining a migrant-inclusive tuberculosis research agenda to end TB.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2018Review
- Extended screening for infectious diseases among newly-arrived asylum seekers from Africa and Asia, Verona province, Italy, April 2014 to June 2015.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2018Observational
- Universal screening for latent and active tuberculosis (TB) in asylum seeking children, Bochum and Hamburg, Germany, September 2015 to November 2016.Euro surveillance : bulletin Europeen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin · 2018Article
- Demographic predictors of active tuberculosis in people migrating to British Columbia, Canada: a retrospective cohort study.CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne · 2018Article
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Abstract
backgroundIn low-incidence countries, most tuberculosis (TB) cases occur among migrants and are caused by reactivation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) acquired in the country of origin. Diagnosis and treatment of LTBI are rarely implemented to reduce the burden of TB in immigrants, partly because the cost-effectiveness profile of this intervention is uncertain. The objective of this research is to perform a review of the literature to assess the cost-effectiveness of LTBI diagnosis and treatment strategies in migrants.
methodsScoping review of economic evaluations on LTBI screening strategies for migrants was carried out in Medline.
resultsNine studies met the inclusion criteria. LTBI screening was cost-effective according to seven studies. Findings of four studies support interferon gamma release assay as the most cost-effective test for LTBI screening in migrants. Two studies found that LTBI screening is cost-effective only if carried out in immigrants who are contacts of active TB cases. DISCUSSION AND
conclusionsOur findings support the cost-effectiveness of LTBI diagnostic and treatment strategies in migrants especially if they are focused on young subjects from high incidence countries. These strategies could represent and adjunctive and synergistic tool to achieve the ambitious aim of TB elimination.
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