What happens to migrant tuberculosis patients who are transferred out using a web-based system in China?
Tao LiXin DuHemant Deepak ShewadeKyaw Thu SoeHui ZhangPublished in: PloS one (2018)
Web-based transfer helped as the delay and attrition during the transfer interval was quite short and treatment outcomes of more than four-fifths of transferred out migrant TB patients were available with transfer-out BMU. Once strategies to address the independent predictors of 'not evaluated' treatment outcome are devised, China may consider mandatory use of web-based TBIMS for transferring out migrant TB patients.