Identifying barriers and facilitators to implementation of community-based tuberculosis active case finding with mobile X-ray units in Lima, Peru: a RE-AIM evaluation.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Identify barriers and facilitators to integrating community tuberculosis screening with mobile X-ray units into a health system.

Methods

Reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance evaluation.

Setting

3-district region of Lima, Peru.

Participants

63 899 people attended the mobile units from 7 February 2019 to 6 February 2020.

Interventions

Participants were screened by chest radiography, which was scored for abnormality by computer-aided detection. People with abnormal X-rays were evaluated clinically and by GeneXpert MTB/RIF (Xpert) sputum testing. People diagnosed with tuberculosis at the mobile unit were accompanied to health facilities for treatment initiation.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

Reach was defi

SUBMITTER: Yuen CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8264873 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature