Cost effectiveness of low-complexity screening tests in community-based case-finding for tuberculosis.

Lukas E BrümmerRyan R ThompsonAkash MalhotraSourya ShresthaEmily A KendallJason R AndrewsPatrick PhillipsPayam NahidAdithya CattamanchiFlorian M MarxClaudia M DenkingerDavid W Dowdy

Published in: Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (2023)

Screening tests can meaningfully improve the cost-effectiveness of community-based case-finding for TB, but only if they are sensitive, specific, and inexpensive.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
emergency department
pulmonary tuberculosis
adverse drug
hiv infected