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ArticleJournal of immigrant and minority health2021

Programmatic Effectiveness of Latent Tuberculosis Care Cascade in a Community Health Center.

Christopher Prater, Samuel Holzman, Maunank Shah

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Article in Journal of immigrant and minority health, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Evaluation of the Latent Tuberculosis Care Cascade Among Public Health Clinics in the United States.Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America · 2022
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  5. TB preventive treatment in high- and intermediate-incidence countries: research needs for scale-up.The international journal of tuberculosis and lung disease : the official journal of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Christopher PraterWashington University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA. cwprater@wustl.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4315-3766
Samuel HolzmanJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Maunank ShahJohns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Baltimore, MD, USA.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Our aim was to quantify successful completion of steps of the latent tuberculosis (LTBI) care cascade in a community health center (CHC) with a large foreign-born population. We conducted a retrospective cohort study of individuals with a positive test for tuberculosis (TB) infection from 2015 to 2017 at Baltimore Medical Systems (BMS). During the study period, 3,984 individuals were tested for TB. Of the 418 individuals with positive tests, 152 (36%) were referred elsewhere for care, whereas 266 (64%) were retained in care at BMS. Treatment was prescribed for 157 of the 214 (73%) diagnosed with LTBI and retained in care at BMS (125/157 [80%] four months of rifampin; 32/157 [20%] nine months of isoniazid). One hundred forty-one patients (141/157, 90%) initiated treatment, of which 119 completed therapy (119/141, 84%). Our study identified several gaps in the LTBI care cascade in a CHC. Nonetheless, a large proportion of those treated for LTBI at the CHC completed therapy.

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Latent TuberculosisAntitubercular AgentsCommunity Health CentersHumansIsoniazidRetrospective StudiesAntitubercular AgentsIsoniazidCommunity health centerForeign-born populationTB care cascadeTuberculosis

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