Two Clinical Prediction Tools to Inform Rapid Tuberculosis Treatment Decision-making in Children.
Meredith B BrooksHamidah HussainSara SiddiquiJunaid F AhmedMaria JaswalFarhana AmanullahMercedes BecerraAmyn Abdul MalikPublished in: Open forum infectious diseases (2023)
Use of clinical evidence was sufficient to accurately identify children who would benefit from treatment initiation. Our tools performed well compared with existing algorithms, though these results need to be externally validated before operationalization.