Jessica Carter, Felicity Knights, Anna Deal, Alison F Crawshaw, Sally E Hayward, Rebecca Hall, Philippa Matthews, Farah Seedat, Yusuf Ciftci, Dominik Zenner, Fatima Wurie, Ines Campos-Matos, Azeem Majeed, Ana Requena-Mendez, Sally Hargreaves
BACKGROUND: Migrants in Europe face a disproportionate burden of undiagnosed infection, including tuberculosis, blood-borne viruses, and parasitic infections and many belong to an under-immunised group. The European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) has called for innovative strategies to deliver integrated multi-disease screening to migrants within primary care, yet this is poorly implemented in the UK. We did an in-depth qualitative study to understand current practice, barriers and solutions to infectious disease screening in primary care, and to seek feedback on a collaboratively developed digitalised integrated clinical decision-making tool called Health Catch UP!, which supports multi-infection screening for migrant patients...
2024: Journal of migration and health