Case-Finding Strategies for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis: Protocol for a Scoping Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Transmission of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is ongoing. Finding individuals with DR-TB and initiating treatment as early as possible is important to improve patient clinical outcomes and to break the chain of transmission to control the pandemic. To our knowledge systematic reviews assessing effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of different case-finding strategies for DR-TB to inform research, policy, and practice have not been conducted, and it is unknown whether enough research exists to conduct such reviews. It is unknown whether case-finding strategies are similar for DR-TB and drug-susceptible TB and whether we can draw on findings from drug-susceptible reviews to inform decisions on case-finding strategies for DR-TB.

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SUBMITTER: Van Wyk SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9801265 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature