Open AccessAre treatment outcomes of patients with tuberculosis detected by active case finding different from those detected by passive case finding?
Author(s) -
Mahendra Singh,
Karuna D. Sagili,
Jaya Prasad Tripathy,
Surekha Kishore,
Yogesh Bahurupi,
Ajay Kumar,
Vagish Kala,
Vikas Yadav,
Shikha Murmu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of global infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 0974-8245
pISSN - 0974-777X
DOI - 10.4103/jgid.jgid_66_19
Subject(s) - case finding , tuberculosis , active tuberculosis , medicine , intensive care medicine , psychology , pathology , mycobacterium tuberculosis
India has adopted active case finding (ACF) as an additional strategy to find its missing tuberculosis (TB) cases since 2017. Treatment outcomes of patients identified through ACF may be similar or different from those detected through routine passive case finding (PCF); currently, there are limited studies on this in India.