High mortality among patients with tuberculosis accessing primary care facilities: secondary analysis from an open-label cluster-randomised trialResearch in context

High mortality among patients with tuberculosis accessing primary care facilities: secondary analysis from an open-label cluster-randomised trialResearch in context

Summary: Background: Tuberculosis (TB) mortality remains persistently high, despite global TB control efforts. The aim of this study was to assess if a quality improvement (QI) intervention reduced deaths in TB patients accessing primary healthcare (PHC) services. Methods: In this pre specified sec...

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Main Authors: Kogieleum Naidoo, Nonhlanhla Yende Zuma, Mikaila Moodley, Felix Made, Rubeshan Perumal, Santhanalakshmi Gengiah, Jacqueline Ngozo, Nesri Padayatchi, Andrew Nunn, Salim Abdool Karim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2025-04-01
Series:EClinicalMedicine
Subjects:
Quality improvement
TB case fatality rate
Mortality
HIV-TB coinfected mortality
Primary healthcare
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537025000835
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