A cost analysis of implementing mobile health facilitated tuberculosis contact investigation in a low-income setting.

Patricia TurimumahoroAustin TuckerAmanda J Meyer Radhika P TampiDiana BabiryeEmmanuel OchomJoseph M GgitaIrene AyakakaHojoon SohnAchilles KatambaDavid DowdyJ Lucian Davis

Published in: PloS one (2022)

Over 75% of all costs of the mHealth-facilitated TB contact investigation strategy were dedicated to establishing mHealth infrastructure and capacity. Implementing the mHealth strategy at scale and maintaining it over a longer time horizon could help decrease development costs as a proportion of total costs.

Keyphrases

mycobacterium tuberculosis
quality improvement
emergency department
hiv infected
antiretroviral therapy