Cost-effectiveness of household contact investigation for detection of tuberculosis in Pakistan.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Despite WHO guidelines recommending household contact investigation, and studies showing the impact of active screening, most tuberculosis (TB) programmes in resource-limited settings only carry out passive contact investigation. The cost of such strategies is often cited as barriers to their implementation. However, little data are available for the additional costs required to implement this strategy. We aimed to estimate the cost and cost-effectiveness of active contact investigation as compared with passive contact investigation in urban Pakistan.

Methods

We estimated the cost-effectiveness of 'enhanced' (passive with follow-up) and 'active' (household visit) contact investigations compared with standard 'passive' contact investigation from providers and the p

SUBMITTER: Hussain H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8543626 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature