Patient support for tuberculosis patients in low-incidence countries: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patient support during tuberculosis treatment is expected to be more often available and more customized in low tuberculosis incidence, high-resource settings than in lower-resource settings. The aim of this systematic review is to provide an overview of tuberculosis patient support interventions implemented in low-incidence countries and an evaluation of their effects on treatment-related outcomes as well as their acceptability by patients and providers.

Methods

PubMed, Social Science Citation Index and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health and Literature were searched for the period 01.2006-05.2016 on publications describing tuberculosis patient support interventions in low-incidence countries (<20 patients per 100,000 population).

Results

Through

SUBMITTER: van de Berg S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6179254 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature