Household contact non-attendance of clinical evaluation for tuberculosis: a pilot study in a high burden district in South Africa

Autor:	Gladys Kigozi, Michelle Engelbrecht, Christo Heunis, André Janse van Rensburg
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2018
Předmět:	Household contact investigation Tuberculosis Active case finding Clinical evaluation Free State Province Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216
Zdroj:	BMC Infectious Diseases, Vol 18, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	1471-2334
DOI:	10.1186/s12879-018-3010-3
Popis:	Abstract Background In 2012, the World Health Organization launched guidelines for systematically investigating contacts of persons with infectious tuberculosis (TB) in low- and middle-income countries. As such, it is necessary to understand factors that would influence successful scale-up. This study targeted household contacts of newly-diagnosed infectious TB patients in the Mangaung Metropolitan district to explore factors associated with non-attendance of clinical evaluation. Method In September–October 2016, a pilot study of household contacts was conducted. At each of the 40 primary health care (PHC) facilities in the district, at least one out of four types of TB index cases were purposefully selected. These included children
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