Cost-effectiveness of household contact investigation for detection of tuberculosis in Pakistan.
Hamidah HussainAmyn Abdul MalikJunaid F AhmedSara SiddiquiFarhana AmanullahJacob CreswellThorkild TylleskärBjarne RobberstadPublished in: BMJ open (2021)
Our results show that enhanced and active approaches to contact investigation effectively identify additional patients with TB among household contacts at a relatively modest cost. These strategies can be added to the passive contact investigation in a high burden setting to find the people with TB who are missed and meet the End TB strategy goals.