ReviewArchives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique2019
Prevalence rate of undiagnosed tuberculosis in the community in Ethiopia from 2001 to 2014: systematic review and meta-analysis.
Review in Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06409780 (Comparative Efficacy of Chest Ultrasound, Chest X-Ray and Computer-aided Diagnostic), which is not on this map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Comparative Efficacy of Chest Ultrasound, Chest X-Ray and Computer-aided Diagnostic (CAD) for Tuberculosis Diagnosis in Low-Resource Setting: A Cross-Sectional Study From Ethiopia (CUSTB)
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Prevalence of tuberculosis in Ethiopia: an umbrella review of systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Pooled it
- Isolation practice of active pulmonary tuberculosis patients in an acute care setting at a teaching hospital in Ethiopia: a challenge for TB control.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2026Observational
- Spatial co-distribution of tuberculosis prevalence and low BCG vaccination coverage in Ethiopia.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Facilitators and barriers to implementing chest radiography in tuberculosis systematic screening of clinically high-risk groups in Ethiopia: A qualitative study.SAGE open medicine · 2024Article
- Comparative effectiveness of chest ultrasound, chest X-ray and computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) for tuberculosis diagnosis in low-resource setting: study protocol for a cross-sectional study from Ethiopia.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Acceptability of integrating traditional tuberculosis care with modern healthcare services in the Amhara Regional State of Northwest Ethiopia: A qualitative study.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
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- Risk-adjusted active tuberculosis case finding strategy in central Ethiopia.IJID regions · 2022Article
- Magnitude and determinants of delay in diagnosis of tuberculosis patients in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis: 2020.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2022Article
- Missed Tuberculosis Investigations and Associated Factors in Patients with Symptoms Indicative of Tuberculosis at Public Health Institutions in Northwest Ethiopia: The Application of a Negative Binomial Model.Infection and drug resistance · 2022Article
- Impact of early chest radiography on delay in pulmonary tuberculosis case notification in Ethiopia.International journal of mycobacteriologyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundIn Ethiopia individual report indicated nearly 30% of incident cases of tuberculosis remained undiagnosed. Therefore, this systematic review and meta-analysis was aimed to determine the pooled prevalence rate of undiagnosed smear positive pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) using community based studies published in Ethiopia.
methodsMEDLINE/PubMed, 'Cochrane' library, and Google scholar databases were searched, and reference list of studies on tuberculosis in Ethiopia were reviewed. We used table to present descriptive information of original studies and quantitative results were presented in forest plots. The Cochrane Q test and I
resultsFrom the nine studies included in the analysis, the pooled prevalence rate and point estimate of undiagnosed smear positive PTB was 0.11%(95% CI, 0.06-013%,
conclusionsThe analysis revealed that the magnitude of undiagnosed smear positive PTB cases in the community is high in Ethiopia. This indicated the ongoing transmission of tuberculosis in community due to missed infectious cases. Active tuberculosis finding in the community should be strengthened in Ethiopia.
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