Active Case Finding for Tuberculosis through TOUCH Agents in Selected High TB Burden Wards of Kolkata, India: A Mixed Methods Study on Outcomes and Implementation Challenges

Active case finding (ACF) for tuberculosis (TB) was implemented in 60 selected high TB burden wards of Kolkata, India. Community volunteers called TOUCH (Targeted Outreach for Upliftment of Community Health) agents (TAs) identified and referred presumptive TB patients (PTBPs) to health facilities fo...

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Autores principales: Dey, Abhijit, Thekkur, Pruthu, Ghosh, Ayan, Dasgupta, Tanusree, Bandopadhyay, Soumyajyoti, Lahiri, Arista, Sanju S V, Chidananda, Dinda, Milan K., Sharma, Vivek, Dimari, Namita, Chatterjee, Dibyendu, Roy, Isita, Choudhury, Anuradha, Shanmugam, Parthiban, Saha, Brojo Kishore, Ghosh, Sanghamitra, Nagaraja, Sharath Burugina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6958373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31683801
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4040134

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6958373/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31683801
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/tropicalmed4040134

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