Interventions to increase tuberculosis case detection at primary healthcare or community-level services.

CONCLUSIONS: The available evidence demonstrates that when used in appropriate settings, active case-finding approaches may result in increase in tuberculosis case detection in the short term. The effect of active case finding on treatment outcome needs to be further evaluated in sufficiently powered studies. PMID: 29182800 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29182800?dopt=Abstract

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - November 28, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: Mhimbira FA, Cuevas LE, Dacombe R, Mkopi A, Sinclair D Tags: Cochrane Database Syst Rev Source Type: research