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Rebecca F. Baggaley, Carolin Vegvari, Christian Akem Dimala, Marc Lipman, Robert F. Miller, et al.
…nded data supporting the claims of the related manuscript: “Health economic analyses of latent tuberculosis infection screening and preventive treatment among people living with HIV in lower tuberculosis incidence settings: a systematic review”.In a systematic review, the related…
Rebecca F. Baggaley, Carolin Vegvari, Christian Akem Dimala, Marc Lipman, Robert F. Miller, et al.
…of LTBI screening cost-effectiveness may improve uptake and health outcomes at reasonable cost. <b>Methods:</b> Our systematic review assessed cost-effectiveness estimates of LTBI screening/PT strategies among PLWH in lower TB incidence countries to identify model-driving inputs …
Baggaley RF, Vegvari C, Dimala CA, Lipman M, Miller RF, et al.
…ences. Databases were searched 1980-2020. Studies including health economic evaluation of LTBI screening of PLWH in lower TB incidence countries ( Results: Of 2,644 articles screened, nine studies were included. Cost-effectiveness estimates of LTBI screening/PT for PLWH varied wi…
Menzies NA, Shrestha S, Parriott A, Marks SM, Hill AN, et al.
…o progress to tuberculosis (TB). We estimated the potential health and economic benefits of diagnostics with improved discrimination for LTBI that will progress to TB. Methods A base case scenario represented current LTBI testing and treatment services in the United States in 202…
Pareek M, Eborall HC, Wobi F, Ellis KS, Kontopantelis E, et al.
…alitative sub-study to understand the views of migrants and healthcare professionals to the new testing policy in primary care. Finally, we will evaluate the cost-effectiveness of combined infection testing for migrants in primary care. Ethics and dissemination The study has rece…
Tom Wingfield, Stéphane Verguet
…programmes (NTP).1WHOGlobal Tuberculosis Report 2018. World Health Organization, Geneva2018Google Scholar Of the remaining 6 million, many experienced substantial delays in accessing and receiving appropriate care.1WHOGlobal Tuberculosis Report 2018. World Health Organization, Ge…
Wong YJ, Ng KY, Lee SWH
…p-outs from the LTBI cascade of care are minimized. Digital health technology could play an important role in case detection and treatment adherence. This study aims to evaluate the use and impact of digital health technology in LTBI care. Methods A systematic literature search w…
Digambar Behera
…ve led to many adverse impacts on societies, economies, and health-care delivery systems. All countries of the world are struggling to maintain their health care systems to cope under such extraordinary conditions. In addition to affecting medical care of various diseases, whethe…
Espinoza E, Shaughnessy M, Walker P, Husmann R, Hale G, et al.
… due to language, cultural, and economic issues. Unprepared health systems and providers further contribute to health disparities in transplantation. Foreign-born patients are also at risk for reactivation of latent infections which differ from U.S.-born population. Stratifying t…
Gèrard de Vries, Jossy van den Boogaard, Ibrahim Abubakar
The report of the Lancet Migration and Health Commission surmises that with a billion people on the move, this subject is one of the defining issues of our time [[1]Abubakar I Aldridge RW Devakumar D et al.The UCL-lancet commission on migration and health: the health of a world o…
Shedrawy J, Deogan C, Öhd JN, Hergens MP, Bruchfeld J, et al.
Introduction The majority of tuberculosis (TB) cases in Sweden occur among migrants from endemic countries through activation of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI). Sweden has LTBI-screening policies for migrants that have not been previously evaluated. This study aimed to asse…
Appa A, Miller AP, Fatch R, Kekibiina A, Beesiga B, et al.
Economic incentives to promote health behavior change are highly efficacious for substance use disorders as well as increased medication adherence. Knowledge about participants' experiences with and perceptions of incentives is needed to understand their mechanisms of action and …
Elif Nazlı Simge Kara
…enced a concerning resurgence, posing a major global public health threat. Despite being preventable and curable, socio-economic, immunological, and geopolitical factors have hindered TB control, contributing to its re-emergence. In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million individuals dev…
Elif Nazlı Simge Kara
…enced a concerning resurgence, posing a major global public health threat. Despite being preventable and curable, socio-economic, immunological, and geopolitical factors have hindered TB control, contributing to its re-emergence. In 2022, an estimated 10.6 million individuals dev…
Ping PA, Zakaria R, Islam MA, Yaacob LH, Muhamad R, et al.
…impose a high disease burden in terms of both mortality and health economics worldwide. The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence and risk factors of latent TB infection (LTBI) in patients with T2DM in Malaysia. A cross-sectional study was performed, and adult T2…
Rizzi A, Nucera E, Mazzucco W, Palumbo P, Staiti D, et al.
…on or reactivation of latent disease, the screening of both health-care workers (HCWs) and students is an important issue in the TB control program. Objective to deploy a web-based platform interoperating health surveillance systems from different hospitals to define models based…
Rebecca Berhanu, Karen R. Jacobson
…MPHRebecca H. Berhanu, MDBoston University School of Public Health, Boston, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this author and Karen R. Jacobson, MD, MPHBoston University School of Medicine, Boston, MassachusettsSearch for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclo…
To KW, Zhang R, Lee SS
… studies for TBST have been conducted without exploring the health economics for preventing development of LTBI into active TB. Unlike IGRA, no clinical studies have addressed the correlation of TBST results (magnitude of induration) with the likelihood of development of active T…
Hualin Jiang, Rui Li, Tianhua Zhang, Qinghu Wang, Haini Liu, et al.
…d impact on reducing TB incidence. We aimed to evaluate the health impact and cost-effectiveness of expanding TPT to key community-level population METHODS: We developed a dynamic transmission model incorporating the effect of TPT and seasonal variations in TB incidence. The mode…
Navarro CE, Benjumea-Bedoya D, Estupinan-Bohorquez AF, Florez ID
… tuberculosis (TB) patients in the context of the Colombian healthcare system. Design Health economic evaluation. Decision tree over a horizon of Setting From the perspective of the Colombian healthcare system, the direct healthcare costs related to tests were considered, and dia…
Alice Halliday, Pooja Jain, Long Hoàng, Robert Parker, Mica Tolosa-Wright, et al.
…ures, measured each of the new technologies and performed a health economic analysis in which the best-performing tests were evaluated for cost-effectiveness. The diagnostic accuracy of the transcriptomic tests ranged from an AUC of 0.81 to 0.84 for detecting all TB in our cohort…
Kaisheng Su, Ximeng Li, Zhenyu Jiang, Yifang Mei
…y, and additionally come with a substantial cost-burden for healthcare systems largely due to additional treatment and hospitalization needs. Furthermore, the treatment of RDs may also need to be put on hold when TB infections occur.7 Under such conditions, preventing LTBI reacti…
Halliday A, Jain P, Hoang L, Parker R, Tolosa-Wright M, et al.
…ures, measured each of the new technologies and performed a health economic analysis in which the best-performing tests were evaluated for cost-effectiveness. The diagnostic accuracy of the transcriptomic tests ranged from an AUC of 0.81 to 0.84 for detecting all TB in our cohort…
Marina Pinheiro, Diana Moreira, Carla Valente, Maria do Carmo Meirelles Toledo Cruz, Ana Aguiar, et al.
…forts, reduce TB transmission, and offer substantial public health and economic benefits, making this research highly relevant for policymakers and healthcare providers. Key messages • An important strength of this study lies in its pioneering approach of current recommendations …
Abdul Razzaq Malik
…reness regarding devastating consequences of tuberculosison health and economic aspects of life. This helps to launch efforts to end the globalepidemic of tuberculosis. On the date of 24th March in 1882, Dr. Robert Koch announced about the discovery of bacterium that causes tuber…