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Patient characteristics, health seeking and delays among new sputum smear positive TB patients

author(s) Shewade HD, Gupta V. - , Satyanarayana S.
from UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
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  • Northern Europe
  • Europe
  • World
  • Southern Asia
  • Asia
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Shewade HD, Gupta V, Satyanarayana S, Pandey P, Bajpai UN, Tripathy JP, Kathirvel S, Pandurangan S, Mohanty S, Ghule VH, Sagili KD, Prasad BM, Nath S, Singh P, Singh K, Singh R, Jayaraman G, Rajeswaran P, Srivastava BK, Biswas M, Mallick G, Bera OP, Sahai KN, Murali L, Kamble S, Deshpande M, Kumar N, Kumar S, Jaisingh AJJ, Naqvi AJ, Verma P, Ansari MS, Mishra PC, Sumesh G, Barik S, Mathew V, Lohar MRS, Gaurkhede CS, Parate G, Bale SY, Koli I, Bharadwaj AK, Venkatraman G, Sathiyanarayanan K, Lal J, Sharma AK, Rao R, Kumar AM V., Chadha SS. Patient characteristics, health seeking and delays among new sputum smear positive TB patients identified through active case finding when compared to passive case finding in India. Saunders MJ, editor. PLOS ONE. Public Library of Science; 2019 Mar 13;14(3):e0213345

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Abstract

Axshya SAMVAD is an active tuberculosis (TB) case finding (ACF) strategy under project Axshya (Axshya meaning ‘free of TB’ and SAMVAD meaning ‘conversation’) among marginalized and vulnerable populations in 285 districts of India. This study aims to compare patient characteristics, health seeking, delays in diagnosis and treatment initiation among new sputum smear positive TB patients detected through ACF and passive case finding (PCF) under the national TB programme in marginalized and vulnerable populations between March 2016 and February 2017. This research was supported by the UK Department for International Development’s Operational Research Capacity Building Programme led by the International Union Against TB and Lung Disease (The Union)

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