ReviewRisk management and healthcare policy2021
Contributing Factors in the Tuberculosis Care Cascade in India: A Systematic Literature Review.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Improving cascade outcomes for active TB: A global systematic review and meta-analysis of TB interventions.PLoS medicine · 2023Pooled it
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- Tuberculosis notifications among children and young adolescents, 2008-2019 compared to 2020-2023, Brazil.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2026Article
- A complex case of clinically diagnosed tuberculosis with hypercalcemia: Not missing the tree for the forest!IDCases · 2026Article
- Post-intervention Psychosocial Outcomes Among Tuberculosis Patients in India: The Role of Community Engagement.Cureus · 2025Article
- Global trends and hotspots of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in pulmonary tuberculosis: a bibliometric and visualization analysis.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- A synthesis of youth activation initiatives and their impact on tuberculosis knowledge, knowledge-seeking, and healthcare-seeking behavior in vulnerable populations.Frontiers in tuberculosis · 2025Article
- Tuberculosis in wild animals in India.Veterinary research communications · 2024Review
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- Exploring private sector perspectives on barriers and facilitators in availing tuberculosis care cascade services: a qualitative study from the Indian state.BMC primary care · 2024Article
- Analysis on time delay of tuberculosis among adolescents and young adults in Eastern China.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Uncertainty in tuberculosis clinical decision-making: An umbrella review with systematic methods and thematic analysis.PLOS global public health · 2024Article
- Barriers and facilitators to integrating depression care in tuberculosis services in South Asia: a multi-country qualitative study.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Why and where?-Delay in Tuberculosis care cascade: A cross-sectional assessment in two Indian states, Jharkhand, Gujarat.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
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- Awareness about tuberculosis in a rural area of Mandya district: A cross-sectional study in southern Karnataka.Journal of family medicine and primary care · 2022Article
- Assessing the Role of Pradhan Mantri TB Mukt Bharat Abhiyaan in India's Fight against TB: A National-level Data-based Research Investigation.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social MedicineArticle
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Abstract
Tuberculosis (TB) care cascade is a recently evolved care model for patient retention across the sequential stages of care for a successful treatment outcome. The care cascade is multi-folded and complex in setting where the health system is reforming for its resilience. India, one of the countries with the highest burden of tuberculosis mortality and morbidity, is not an exception to this complexity. With the diverse challenges in the Indian health system and societal diversity, it is essential to understand the factors contributing to this TB care cascade. Thus, this study aims to map all the contributing factors to the TB care cascade in India. Further, it also captures the different patterns of factors explored so far in different countries' regions. This systematic literature review was conducted between October 2020 and February 2021 in India using PubMed databases, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. Two reviewers extracted the data from eligible studies to summarize and tabulate important findings. Data were extracted and tabulated for study design, location of the study, type of TB patients, methodological approach, system side challenges, and demand-side challenges in the study's findings. Out of 692 initial hits from the literature search, 28 studies were finally included to synthesize evidence in this review as per the inclusion and exclusion criteria. This review provides an insight into different factors such as the system-side (health workforce, institutional) and the demand-side (individual, societal) contributing towards the care cascade. The prime factors reflected in most of the studies were socio-economic condition, disease awareness, myths/beliefs, addictions among the demand-side factors and accessibility, the attitude of the healthcare staff, delay in referral for diagnosis among the system-side factors. The accountability for addressing these diverse factors is recommended to close the gaps in the TB care cascade.
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