Understanding pretreatment loss to follow-up of tuberculosis patients: an explanatory qualitative study in Chennai, India

Understanding pretreatment loss to follow-up of tuberculosis patients: an explanatory qualitative study in Chennai, India

Introduction Pretreatment loss to follow-up (PTLFU)—dropout of patients after diagnosis but before treatment registration—is a major gap in tuberculosis (TB) care in India and globally. Patient and healthcare worker (HCW) perspectives are critical for developing interventions to reduce PTLFU.Methods...

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Main Authors: Soumya Swaminathan, Kenneth H Mayer, Beena E Thomas, Chandra Suresh, J Lavanya, Mika M Lindsley, Amith T Galivanche, Senthil Sellappan, Senthanro Ovung, Amritha Aravind, Savari Lincy, Agnes Lawrence Raja, S Kokila, B Javeed, S Arumugam, Ramnath Subbaraman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMJ Publishing Group 2020-03-01
Series:BMJ Global Health
Online Access:https://gh.bmj.com/content/5/2/e001974.full
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