Picking the low-hanging fruit: the cost-effectiveness of opportunistic diabetes screening during tuberculosis contact investigations on the Texas-Mexico border

• Hoofdauteurs: Henry Shelton Brown (Auteur), Robert A McGowan (Auteur), Juan Carlos Lopez-Alvarenga (Auteur), Blanca I Restrepo (Auteur)
• Formaat: Boek
• Gepubliceerd in: BMJ Publishing Group, 2024-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Onderwerpen: article
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Objective There is a known association between type 2 diabetes (diabetes) and tuberculosis (TB), and TB clinics have become hubs for new diabetes diagnosis among active patients with TB. However, despite the potential to identify diabetes patients, resources limit diabetes screening opportunities to...