Improving tuberculosis screening and isoniazid preventive therapy in an HIV clinic in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1396-1401

  Zaeh, Sandra ^a   Kempker, R ^a   Stenehjem, E ^a,b   Blumberg, H M ^a   Temesgen, O ^c   Ofotokun, I ^a   Tenna, Admasu ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INTERMOUNTAIN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

Checklists; Implementation science; Quality improvement; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ISONIAZID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICIAN; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING; SYMPTOM; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE FACILITIES; ANTITUBERCULAR AGENTS; CHECKLIST; COINFECTION; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; ISONIAZID; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REMINDER SYSTEMS; TUBERCULOSIS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84888096792     PISSN: 10273719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5588/ijtld.13.0315     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Dye C. Global epidemiology of tuberculosis. Lancet 2006; 367: 938-940.
2. Godfrey-Faussett P, Maher D, Mukadi Y D, Nunn P, Perriens J, Raviglione M. How human immunodeficiency virus voluntary testing can contribute to tuberculosis control. Bull World Health Organ 2002; 80: 939-945. (Pubitemid 36056085)
3. Lawn S D, Harries A D, Anglaret X, Myer L, Wood R. Early mortality among adults accessing antiretroviral treatment programmes in sub-Saharan Africa. AIDS 2008; 22: 1897-1908.
4. Shah S, Demissie M, Lambert L, et al. Intensified tuberculosis case finding among HIV-infected persons from a voluntary counseling and testing center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2009; 50: 537-545.
5. World Health Organization. Guidelines for intensified tuberculosis case-finding and isoniazid preventative therapy for people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2011.
6. World Health Organization. WHO policy on collaborative TB/HIV activities. WHO/HTM/TB/2012.1. WHO/HIV/2012.1 Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2012.
7. World Health Organization. Global tuberculosis report, 2012. WHO/HTM/TB/2012.6. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO, 2012.
8. Getahun H, Kittikraisak W, Heilig C M, et al. Development of a standardized screening rule for tuberculosis in people living with HIV in resource-constrained settings: individual participant data meta-analysis of observational studies. PLOS Med 2011; 8: e1000391.
9. Tadesse T, Demissie M, Berhane Y, Kebede Y, Abebe M. Incidence of smear-positive tuberculosis in Dabat, northern Ethiopia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2013; 17: 630-635.
10. HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control Office. Country progress report on HIV/AIDS response, 2012. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, 2012.
11. Gulland A. Doctors pledge to spread evidence based healthcare in Africa. BMJ 2013; 346: f356.
12. Madon T, Hofman K J, Kupfer L, Glass R I. Public health. Implementation science. Science 2007; 318: 1728-1729.
13. Harris P A, Taylor R, Thielke R, Payne J, Gonzalez N, Conde J G. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)-a metadatadriven methodology and workfl ow process for providing translational research informatics support. J Biomed Inform 2009; 42: 377-381.
14. Akolo C, Adetifa I, Shepperd S, Volmink J. Treatment of latent tuberculosis infection in HIV infected persons. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2010 (1): CD000171.
15. Bucher H C, Griffith L E, Guyatt G H, et al. Isoniazid prophylaxis for tuberculosis in HIV infection: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. AIDS 1999; 13: 501-507.
16. Bell J C, Rose D N, Sacks H S. Tuberculosis preventive therapy for HIV-infected people in sub-Saharan Africa is cost-effective. AIDS 1999; 13: 1549-1556. (Pubitemid 29396688)
17. Sutton B S, Arias M S, Chheng P, Eang M T, Kimerling M E. The cost of intensified case finding and isoniazid preventive therapy for HIV-infected patients in Battambang, Cambodia. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2009; 13: 713-718.
18. Haynes A B, Weiser T G, Berry W R, et al. A surgical safety checklist to reduce morbidity and mortality in a global population. N Engl J Med 2009; 360: 491-499.
19. Spector J M, Agrawal P, Kodkany B, et al. Improving quality of care for maternal and newborn health: prospective pilot study of the WHO safe childbirth checklist program. PLOS ONE 2012; 7: e35151.
20. Haynes A B, Regenbogen S E, Weiser T G, et al. Surgical outcome measurement for a global patient population: validation of the Surgical Apgar Score in 8 countries. Surgery 2011; 149: 519-524.
21. Bloss E, Makombe R, Kip E, et al. Lessons learned during tuberculosis screening in public medical clinics in Francistown, Botswana. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 2012; 16: 1030-1032.
22. Fairall L, Bachmann M O, Lombard C, et al. Task shifting of antiretroviral treatment from doctors to primary-care nurses in South Africa (STRETCH): a pragmatic, parallel, cluster-randomised trial. Lancet 2012; 380: 889-898.
23. Callaghan M, Ford N, Schneider H. A systematic review of task-shifting for HIV treatment and care in Africa. Hum Resour Health 2010; 8: 8.
24. Zachariah R, Ford N, Philips M, et al. Task shifting in HIV/AIDS: opportunities, challenges and proposed actions for sub- Saharan Africa. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2009; 103: 549-558.
25. Mullan F. The metrics of the physician brain drain. N Engl J Med 2005; 353: 1810-1818. (Pubitemid 41549893)
26. African Health Workforce Observatory. Human resources for health country profile: Ethiopia. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: AHWO, 2010.
27. Mayo E. The human problems of an industrial civilization. New York, NY, USA: Macmillan, 1933.
28. Getahun H, Harrington M, O'Brien R, Nunn P. Diagnosis of smear-negative pulmonary tuberculosis in people with HIV infection or AIDS in resource-constrained settings: informing urgent policy changes. Lancet 2007; 369: 2042-2049. (Pubitemid 46908825)