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A pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of active case finding for household contacts within a routine tuberculosis program, San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, Peru

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dc.contributor.author Shah, L.
dc.contributor.author Rojas Peña, M.
dc.contributor.author Mori, O.
dc.contributor.author Zamudio Fuertes, Carlos Eduardo
dc.contributor.author Kaufman, J.S.
dc.contributor.author Otero Vegas, Larissa
dc.contributor.author Gotuzzo Herencia, José Eduardo
dc.contributor.author Seas Ramos, Carlos Rafael
dc.contributor.author Brewer, T.F.
dc.date.accessioned 2020-12-14T16:10:13Z
dc.date.available 2020-12-14T16:10:13Z
dc.date.issued 2020
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/8807
dc.description.abstract Background: Active case finding (ACF) in household contacts of tuberculosis (TB) patients is now recommended for National TB Programs (NTP) in low- and middle-income countries. However, evidence supporting these recommendations remains limited. This study evaluates the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of ACF for household contacts of TB cases in a large TB endemic district of Lima, Peru. Methods: A pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized controlled trial was conducted in 34 health centers of San Juan de Lurigancho district. Centers were stratified by TB rate and randomly allocated to initiate ACF in groups of eight or nine centers at four-month intervals. In the intervention arm, NTP providers visited households of index patients to screen contacts for active TB. The control arm was routine passive case finding (PCF) of symptomatic TB cases. The primary outcomes were the crude and adjusted active TB case rates among household contacts. Program costs were directly measured, and the cost-effectiveness of the ACF intervention was determined. Findings: 3222 index TB cases and 12,566 household contacts were included in the study. ACF identified more household contact TB cases than PCF, 199.29/10,000 contacts/year vs. 132.13 (incidence rate ratio of 1.51 (95% CI 1.21–1.88)). ACF was associated with an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of US $16,400 per disability-adjusted life year averted and not cost-effective assuming a willingness-to-pay threshold for Peru of US $6360. Conclusion: ACF of TB case household contacts detected significantly more secondary TB cases than PCF alone, but was not cost-effective in this setting. In threshold analyses, ACF becomes cost-effective if associated with case detection rates 2.5 times higher than existing PCF programs. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher Elsevier
dc.relation.ispartofseries International Journal of Infectious Diseases
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Tuberculosis en_US
dc.subject Stepped-wedge randomized trial en_US
dc.subject Active case finding en_US
dc.subject Household contacts en_US
dc.subject Public Health en_US
dc.title A pragmatic stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial to evaluate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of active case finding for household contacts within a routine tuberculosis program, San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima, Peru en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijid.2020.09.034
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.08
dc.relation.issn 1878-3511


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