Comparing yield and relative costs of WHO TB screening algorithms in selected risk groups among people aged 65 years and over in China, 2013.

To calculate the yield and cost per diagnosed tuberculosis (TB) case for three World Health Organization screening algorithms and one using the Chinese National TB program (NTP) TB suspect definitions, using data from a TB prevalence survey of people aged 65 years and over in China, 2013.This was an...

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Main Authors: Canyou Zhang, Yunzhou Ruan, Jun Cheng, Fei Zhao, Yinyin Xia, Hui Zhang, Ewan Wilkinson, Mrinalini Das, Jie Li, Wei Chen, Dongmei Hu, Kathiresan Jeyashree, Lixia Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5464530?pdf=render