ReviewInternational journal of infectious diseases : IJID : official publication of the International Society for Infectious Diseases2017
Quality of tuberculosis care in high burden countries: the urgent need to address gaps in the care cascade.
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- Clinical pharmacy services for tuberculosis management: a systematic review.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Duration and determinants of delayed tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment in high-burden countries: a mixed-methods systematic review and meta-analysis.Respiratory research · 2021Pooled it
- A systematic review of biomarkers to detect active tuberculosis.Nature microbiology · 2019Pooled it
- Mortality due to low-quality health systems in the universal health coverage era: a systematic analysis of amenable deaths in 137 countries.Lancet (London, England) · 2018Pooled it
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- Eight-year tuberculosis epidemic trends in the Republic of Congo, a high TB burden country: progress and gaps towards end-TB targets.BMJ global health · 2025Article
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- Identifying Gaps in Tuberculosis Preventive Care for Non-U.S.-born Persons at Community Health Clinics in the United States.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Decentralising DR-TB care: the trade-off between quality of care and service coverage in the early phase of implementation.Public health action · 2025Article
- Tuberculosis: An Update for the Clinician.Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) · 2025Review
- Enhancing tuberculosis case notifications through mapping sales of medicine in the private sector: a quasi-experimental study in Punjab province, Pakistan.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Awareness of management of pulmonary multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) among private practitioners in suburban areas of Pune city, India: Input for developing an educational tool.PLOS global public health · 2025Article
- Exploring Barriers to Timely Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis in Selangor, Malaysia: A Qualitative Study.The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene · 2024Article
- Barriers and facilitators to tuberculosis diagnosis in Lima, Peru: a mixed methods study.BMC infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Reflex Xpert MTB/XDR Testing of Residual Rifampicin-Resistant Specimens: A Clinical Laboratory-Based Diagnostic Accuracy and Feasibility Study in South Africa.Open forum infectious diseases · 2024Article
- Whole-course quality of tuberculosis (TB) care in rural China: a retrospective study based on chart abstraction.BMJ open · 2024Observational
- Systems analysis and improvement approach to optimize tuberculosis (SAIA-TB) screening, treatment, and prevention in South Africa: a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial.Implementation science communications · 2024Article
- Implementing active surveillance for TB: A descriptive survey of healthcare workers in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2024Article
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Abstract
Despite the high coverage of directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS), tuberculosis (TB) continues to affect 10.4 million people each year, and kills 1.8 million. High TB mortality, the large number of missing TB cases, the emergence of severe forms of drug resistance, and the slow decline in TB incidence indicate that merely expanding the coverage of TB services is insufficient to end the epidemic. In the era of the End TB Strategy, we need to think beyond coverage and start focusing on the quality of TB care that is routinely offered to patients in high burden countries, in both public and private sectors. In this review, current evidence on the quality of TB care in high burden countries, major gaps in the quality of care, and some novel efforts to measure and improve the quality of care are described. Based on systematic reviews on the quality of TB care or surrogates of quality (e.g., TB diagnostic delays), analyses of TB care cascades, and newer studies that directly measure quality of care, it is shown that the quality of care in both the public and private sector falls short of international standards and urgently needs improvement. National TB programs will therefore need to systematically measure and improve quality of TB care and invest in quality improvement programs.
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