National TB program shortages as potential factor for poor-quality TB care cascade: Healthcare workers' perspective from Beira, Mozambique.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Mozambique is one of the countries with the deadly implementation gaps in the tuberculosis (TB) care and services delivery. In-hospital delays in TB diagnosis and treatment, transmission and mortality still persist, in part, due to poor-quality of TB care cascade.

Objective

We aimed to assess, from the healthcare workers' (HCW) perspective, factors associated with poor-quality TB care cascade and explore local sustainable suggestions to improve in-hospital TB management.

Methods

In-depth interviews and focus group discussions were conducted with different categories of HCW. Audio-recording and written notes were taken, and content analysis was performed through atlas.ti7.

Results

Bottlenecks within hospital TB care cascade, lack of TB staff and task

SUBMITTER: Lisboa M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7021283 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature