ArticleJournal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases2018
Quality of tuberculosis care by Indian pharmacies: Mystery clients offer new insights.
Article in Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- How to do (or not to do) … using the standardized patient method to measure clinical quality of care in LMIC health facilities.Health policy and planning · 2019Pooled it
- Missed opportunities for diagnosis and treatment in patients with TB symptoms: a systematic review.Public health action · 2022Review
- Understanding dynamics of private tuberculosis pharmacy market: a qualitative inquiry from a South Indian district.BMJ open · 2022Article
- Quality of tuberculosis care by pharmacies in low- and middle-income countries: Gaps and opportunities.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2020Article
- Quality of drug-resistant tuberculosis care: Gaps and solutions.Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial diseases · 2019Review
- Use of standardised patients for healthcare quality research in low- and middle-income countries.BMJ global health · 2019Review
- Variations in the quality of tuberculosis care in urban India: A cross-sectional, standardized patient study in two cities.PLoS medicine · 2018Article
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Abstract
For many patients in India, pharmacies are their first point of contact, where most drugs, including antibiotics, can be purchased over-the-counter (OTC). Recent standardised (simulated) patient studies, covering four Indian cities, provide new insights on how Indian pharmacies manage patients with suspected or known tuberculosis. Correct management of the simulated patients ranged from 13% to 62%, increasing with the certainty of the TB diagnosis. Antibiotics were frequently dispensed OTC to patients, with 16% to 37% receiving such drugs across the cases. On a positive note, these studies showed that no pharmacy dispensed first-line anti-TB drugs. Engagement of pharmacies is important to not only improve TB detection and care, but also limit the abuse of antibiotics.
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