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Comparing Catastrophic Costs: Active vs. Passive Tuberculosis Case Finding in Urban Vietnam

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Active case finding (ACF) is a strategy that aims to identify people with tuberculosis (TB) earlier in their disease. This outreach approach may lead to a reduction in catastrophic cost incurrence (costs exceeding 20% of annual household income), a main ...
Luong V. Dinh, Anja M. C. Wiemers, Rachel J. Forse, Yen T. H. Phan, Andrew J. Codlin, Kristi Sidney Annerstedt, Thuy T. T. Dong, Lan Nguyen, Thuong H. Pham, Lan H. Nguyen, Ha M. T. Dang, Mac H. Tuan, Phuc Thanh Le, Knut Lonnroth, Jacob Creswell, Amera Khan, Beatrice Kirubi, Hoa B. Nguyen, Nhung V. Nguyen, Luan N. Q. Vo   +19 more
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Passive case finding for tuberculosis is not enough

International Journal of Mycobacteriology, 2016
Current World Health Organisation targets calling for an end to the global tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2035 require a dramatic improvement in current case-detection strategies. A reliance on passive case finding (PCF) has resulted consistently, in over
Jennifer Ho, Greg J Fox, Ben J Marais
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A comparison between passive and active case finding in TB control in the Arkhangelsk region [PDF]

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2014
Background: In Russia, active case finding (ACF) for certain population groups has been practiced uninterruptedly for many decades, but no studies comparing ACF and passive case finding (PCF) approaches in Russia have been published.
Vladimir N. Kuznetsov, Andrej M. Grjibovski, Andrey O. Mariandyshev, Eva Johansson, Gunnar A. Bjune   +4 more
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Chest x-ray findings in tuberculosis patients identified by passive and active case finding: A retrospective study [PDF]

Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, 2019
Background: Chest x-ray is central in screening and diagnosis of tuberculosis. However, sputum culture remains gold standard for diagnosis. Aim: To establish the rate of normal chest x-rays in tuberculosis patients found by spot sputum culture screening,
Ema Rastoder, Saher Burhan Shaker, Matiullah Naqibullah, Mathilde Marie Winkler Wille, Mette Lund, Jon Torgny Wilcke, Niels Seersholm, Sidse Graff Jensen   +7 more
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Tuberculosis Case Finding in Kulon Progo District, Yogyakarta, Indonesia: Passive versus Active Case Finding Using Mobile Chest X-ray

Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2023
Active-case finding (ACF) using chest X-ray is an essential method of finding and diagnosing Tuberculosis (TB) cases that may be missed in Indonesia’s routine TB case finding. This study compares active and passive TB case-finding strategies.
John Silwanus Kaku, Riris Andono Ahmad, Stephanie Main, Dwi Oktofiana, Bintari Dwihardiani, Rina Triasih, Philipp du Cros, Geoffrey Chan   +7 more
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Risk factors for inadequate TB case finding in Rural Western Kenya: a comparison of actively and passively identified TB patients. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The findings of a prevalence survey conducted in western Kenya, in a population with 14.9% HIV prevalence suggested inadequate case finding. We found a high burden of infectious and largely undiagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB), that a quarter of the ...
Anna H Van't Hoog, Barbara J Marston, John G Ayisi, Janet A Agaya, Odylia Muhenje, Lazarus O Odeny, John Hongo, Kayla F Laserson, Martien W Borgdorff   +8 more
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Diagnosing human African trypanosomiasis in Angola using a card agglutination test: observational study of active and passive case finding strategies. [PDF]

BMJ, 2006
OBJECTIVE: To assess the operational feasibility of detecting human African trypanosomiasis by active and passive case finding using the card agglutination test with serial dilution of serum to guide treatment.
Abel, Paulo M, Augusto, Inacio, Bisoffi, Zeno, Inojosa, Walter O, Josenado, Teofile, Stich, August, Whitty, Christopher JM   +6 more
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Passive case-finding for Alzheimer's disease and dementia in two U.S. communities. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement, 2011
Passive surveillance for disease is a public health approach that relies on documentation available within existing health records for the region or community being studied. Its two primary advantages over active case‐finding are the lower cost of research and the lower burden on the population under study.
Knopman DS, Petersen RC, Rocca WA, Larson EB, Ganguli M.   +4 more
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A cost effectiveness analysis of active case finding and passive case finding for case detection of TB at Kisugu Health Center III, Kampala, Uganda [PDF]

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2020
M. Muhoozi, J. Tusabe, L. Tabwenda, S. Mohamed Jimale, P. Ategyeka Mukama   +4 more
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Active and passive case-finding in tuberculosis-affected households in Peru: a 10-year prospective cohort study. [PDF]

Lancet Infect Dis, 2019
يمثل الاكتشاف الفعال للحالات بين مخالطي مرضى السل أولوية صحية عالمية، ولكن آثار الاكتشاف النشط مقابل السلبي للحالات ضعيفة الوصف. قمنا بتقييم مساهمة اكتشاف الحالات الإيجابية مقابل السلبية في اكتشاف السل بين المخالطين وقارنا خصائص الجنس والمرض بين المخالطين الذين تم تشخيصهم من خلال هذه الاستراتيجيات.
Saunders MJ, Tovar MA, Collier D, Baldwin MR, Montoya R, Valencia TR, Gilman RH, Evans CA.   +7 more
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