Sue-Ann Meehan, Anneke C Hesseling, Andrew Boulle, Jolene Chetty, Lucy Connell, Nomthandazo J Dlamini-Miti, Rory Dunbar, Karen Du Preez, Gavin George, Graeme Hoddinott, Karen Jennings, Florian M Marx, Vanessa Mudaly, Pren Naidoo, Neo Ndlovu, Jacqueline Ngozo, Mariette Smith, Michael Strauss, Gaurang Tanna, Nosivuyile Vanqa, Arne von Delft, Muhammad Osman
Every person diagnosed with tuberculosis (TB) needs to initiate treatment. The World Health Organization estimated that 61% of people who developed TB in 2021 were included in a TB treatment registration system. Initial loss to follow-up (ILTFU) is the loss of persons to care between diagnosis and treatment initiation/registration. LINKEDin, a quasi-experimental study, evaluated the effect of 2 interventions (hospital recording and an alert-and-response patient management intervention) in 6 subdistricts across 3 high-TB burden provinces of South Africa...
January 2024: Open Forum Infectious Diseases