Active versus passive case finding for tuberculosis in marginalised and vulnerable populations in India: comparison of treatment outcomes

• मुख्य लेखकों: Hemant Deepak Shewade (लेखक), Vivek Gupta (लेखक), Srinath Satyanarayana (लेखक), Sunil Kumar (लेखक), Prabhat Pandey (लेखक), U. N. Bajpai (लेखक), Jaya Prasad Tripathy (लेखक), Soundappan Kathirvel (लेखक), Sripriya Pandurangan (लेखक), Subrat Mohanty (लेखक), Vaibhav Haribhau Ghule (लेखक), Karuna D. Sagili (लेखक), Banuru Muralidhara Prasad (लेखक), Priyanka Singh (लेखक), Kamlesh Singh (लेखक), Gurukartick Jayaraman (लेखक), P. Rajeswaran (लेखक), Moumita Biswas (लेखक), Gayadhar Mallick (लेखक), Ali Jafar Naqvi (लेखक), Ashwin Kumar Bharadwaj (लेखक), K. Sathiyanarayanan (लेखक), Aniruddha Pathak (लेखक), Nisha Mohan (लेखक), Raghuram Rao (लेखक), Ajay M. V. Kumar (लेखक), Sarabjit Singh Chadha (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: Taylor & Francis Group, 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Background: Community-based active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) implemented among marginalised and vulnerable populations in 285 districts of India resulted in reduction of diagnosis delay and prevalence of catastrophic costs due to TB diagnosis. We were interested to know whether this t...