Cost-effectiveness analysis of community Active Case Finding and Household Contact Investigation for tuberculosis case detection in urban Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Sekandi, Juliet N ^a,c   Dobbin, Kevin ^a   Oloya, James ^a   Okwera, Alphonse ^c   Whalen, Christopher C ^a   Corso, Phaedra S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE CASE FINDING; ARTICLE; CASE FINDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUGHING; HEALTH CARE COST; HOUSEHOLD CONTACT INVESTIGATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PASSIVE CASE FINDING; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPUTUM CYTODIAGNOSIS; SPUTUM SMEAR; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS; TUBERCULOSIS CONTROL; UGANDA; URBAN AREA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; MASS SCREENING; URBANIZATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TUBERCULOSIS; UGANDA; URBANIZATION;

EID: 84922610717     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0117009     Document Type: Article

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