Community-based active case-finding interventions for tuberculosis: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Community-based active case-finding interventions might identify and treat more people with tuberculosis disease than standard case detection. We aimed to assess whether active case-finding interventions can affect tuberculosis epidemiology in the wider community.

Methods

We did a systematic review by searching PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and Cochrane Library for studies that compared tuberculosis case notification rates, tuberculosis disease prevalence, or tuberculosis infection prevalence or incidence in children, between populations exposed and unexposed to active case-finding interventions. We included studies published in English between Jan 1, 1980, and April 13, 2020. Studies of active case-finding in the general population, in populations perceived to be at hi

SUBMITTER: Burke RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8082281 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature