For Tuberculosis, Not "To Screen or Not to Screen?" but "Who?" and "How?"

Autor: Farhat MR; Department of Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School.; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital., Jacobson KR; Section of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center and Boston University Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America [Clin Infect Dis] 2024 Jun 14; Vol. 78 (6), pp. 1677-1679.
DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciae058
Abstrakt: Active case finding leveraging new molecular diagnostics and chest X-rays with automated interpretation algorithms is increasingly being developed for high-risk populations to drive down tuberculosis incidence. We consider why such an approach did not deliver a decline in tuberculosis prevalence in Brazilian prison populations and what to consider next.
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Databáze: MEDLINE