ReviewClinicoEconomics and outcomes research : CEOR2016
Screening strategies for active tuberculosis: focus on cost-effectiveness.
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- Interventions to increase tuberculosis case detection at primary healthcare or community-level services.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2017Pooled it
- Ensuring Continuity of Tuberculosis Care during Social Distancing through Integrated Active Case Finding at COVID-19 Vaccination Events in Vietnam: A Cohort Study.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2024Article
- Factors associated with TB screening among agricultural workers in Limpopo Province, South Africa.Global health action · 2023Review
- Missed opportunity for tuberculosis screening among patients presenting at two health facilities in Manafwa district, Uganda.Journal of public health in Africa · 2023Article
- Economic evaluation of a community health worker model for tuberculosis care in Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam: a mixed-methods Social Return on Investment Analysis.BMC public health · 2023Article
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- A symptomatic approach to tuberculosis screening for high-risk groups in Malaysia: Cost-effectiveness and budget impact analysis.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2022Article
- Portable digital X-ray for TB pre-diagnosis screening in rural communities in Nigeria.Public health action · 2022Article
- Descriptive study of chest x-ray examination in mandatory annual health examinations at the workplace in Japan.PloS one · 2022Article
- Economic Evaluation of Community Tuberculosis Active Case-Finding Approaches in Cambodia: A Quasi-Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Screening for Tuberculosis in Migrants: A Survey by the Global Tuberculosis Network.Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of High-Risk Groups Tuberculosis Screening in Malaysia.Frontiers in public health · 2021Article
- Costs and cost-effectiveness of a comprehensive tuberculosis case finding strategy in Zambia.PloS one · 2021Article
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- Standardized framework for evaluating costs of active case-finding programs: An analysis of two programs in Cambodia and Tajikistan.PloS one · 2020Article
- A comparison of the yield and relative cost of active tuberculosis case-finding algorithms in Zimbabwe.Public health action · 2019Article
- Development and validation of a prediction model for active tuberculosis case finding among HIV-negative/unknown populations.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Modelling the impact of chest X-ray and alternative triage approaches prior to seeking a tuberculosis diagnosis.BMC infectious diseases · 2019Article
- Performance of algorithms for tuberculosis active case finding in underserved high-prevalence settings in Cambodia: a cross-sectional study.Global health action · 2019Article
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Abstract
In recent years, there has been renewed interest in screening for active tuberculosis (TB), also called active case-finding (ACF), as a possible means to achieve control of the global TB epidemic. ACF aims to increase the detection of TB, in order to diagnose and treat patients with TB earlier than if they had been diagnosed and treated only at the time when they sought health care because of symptoms. This will reduce or avoid secondary transmission of TB to other people, with the long-term goal of reducing the incidence of TB. Here, the history of screening for active TB, current screening practices, and the role of TB-diagnostic tools are summarized and the literature on cost-effectiveness of screening for active TB reviewed. Cost-effectiveness analyses indicate that community-wide ACF can be cost-effective in settings with a high incidence of TB. ACF among close TB contacts is cost-effective in settings with a low as well as a high incidence of TB. The evidence for cost-effectiveness of screening among HIV-infected persons is not as strong as for TB contacts, but the reviewed studies suggest that the intervention can be cost-effective depending on the background prevalence of TB and test volume. None of the cost-effectiveness analyses were informed by data from randomized controlled trials. As the results of randomized controlled trials evaluating different ACF strategies will become available in future, we will hopefully gain a better understanding of the role that ACF can play in achieving global TB control.
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