Quality of primary health care in China: challenges and recommendations

X Li, HM Krumholz, W Yip, KK Cheng, J De Maeseneer… - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
China has substantially increased financial investment and introduced favourable policies
for strengthening its primary health care system with core responsibilities in preventing and …

[HTML][HTML] Quality of life with tuberculosis

AN Aggarwal - Journal of clinical tuberculosis and other mycobacterial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Tuberculosis diagnosis and treatment currently revolves around clinical features and
microbiology. The disease however adversely affects patients' psychological, economic, and …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis

M Pai, PK Dewan, S Swaminathan - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Transforming tuberculosis diagnosis | Nature Microbiology Skip to main content Thank you for
visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the …

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: a persistent global health concern

M Farhat, H Cox, M Ghanem, CM Denkinger… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) is estimated to cause 13% of all antimicrobial resistance-
attributable deaths worldwide and is driven by both ongoing resistance acquisition and …

Use of standardised patients for healthcare quality research in low-and middle-income countries

A Kwan, B Daniels, S Bergkvist, V Das, M Pai… - BMJ global health, 2019 - gh.bmj.com
The use of standardised patients (SPs)—people recruited from the local community to
present the same case to multiple providers in a blinded fashion—is increasingly used to …

[HTML][HTML] Closing gaps in the tuberculosis care cascade: an action-oriented research agenda

R Subbaraman, T Jhaveri… - Journal of clinical …, 2020 - Elsevier
The care cascade—which evaluates outcomes across stages of patient engagement in a
health system—is an important framework for assessing quality of tuberculosis (TB) care. In …

Rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and tuberculosis drug resistance: a qualitative evidence synthesis of recipient and provider views

N Engel, EA Ochodo, PW Karanja… - Cochrane Database …, 2022 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Programmes that introduce rapid molecular tests for tuberculosis and
tuberculosis drug resistance aim to bring tests closer to the community, and thereby cut …

[HTML][HTML] Sustainable health care provision worldwide: is there a necessary trade-off between cost and quality?

CL Ranabhat, M Jakovljevic - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Quality health care is an essential human right, on the agenda of sustainable development
and presents a challenge in the twenty-first century. There are different perspectives …

Missing men with tuberculosis: the need to address structural influences and implement targeted and multidimensional interventions

J Chikovore, M Pai, KC Horton, A Daftary… - BMJ global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Tuberculosis (TB) is treatable but is the leading infectious cause of death worldwide, with
men over-represented in some key aspects of the disease burden. Men's TB …

Analysis of clinical knowledge, absenteeism and availability of resources for maternal and child health: a cross-sectional quality of care study in 10 African countries

L Di Giorgio, DK Evans, M Lindelow, SN Nguyen… - BMJ Global …, 2020 - gh.bmj.com
Objective Assess the quality of healthcare across African countries based on health
providers' clinical knowledge, their clinic attendance and drug availability, with a focus on …