Impact of active case-finding for tuberculosis on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi: A community-based cluster-randomised trial (SCALE).

• Main Authors: Helena R A Feasey (Author), McEwen Khundi (Author), Rebecca Nzawa Soko (Author), Christian Bottomley (Author), Lingstone Chiume (Author), Helen E D Burchett (Author), Marriott Nliwasa (Author), Hussein H Twabi (Author), James A Mpunga (Author), Peter MacPherson (Author), Elizabeth L Corbett (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Active case-finding (ACF) for tuberculosis can help find the "missing millions" with undiagnosed tuberculosis. In a cluster-randomised trial, we investigated impact of ACF on case-notifications in Blantyre, Malawi, where ACF has been intensively implemented following 2014 estimates of ~1,0...