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Management and control of tuberculosis control in socially complex groups: a research programme including three RCTs
Alistair Story, Elizabeth Garber, Robert W Aldridge, Catherine M Smith, Joe Hall, Gloria Ferenando, Lucia Possas, Sara Hemming, Fatima Wurie, Serena Luchenski, Ibrahim Abubakar, Timothy D McHugh, Peter J White, John M Watson, Marc Lipman, Richard Garfein, Andrew C Hayward · 13 sections in 13 chapters. Each section is its own page.
SYNOPSIS
Improving the management and control of tuberculosis in socially excluded groups: synopsis of work packages
Work package 1: latent tuberculosis infection and blood-borne virus prevalence in people experiencing homelessness in London
Work package 2: evaluation of an NHS prison screening programme for active tuberculosis, and survey of latent tuberculosis infection and blood-borne virus prevalence in prisoners
Work package 3: peer educators to increase uptake of mobile radiographic screening for tuberculosis in homeless hostels
Work package 4: evaluating the impact of using polymerase chain reaction, Cepheid Xpert MTB/RIF as a point-of-care diagnostic alongside mobile radiographic screening for tuberculosis
Work package 5: a randomised controlled trial comparing smartphone-enabled video-observed treatment with face-to-face directly observed treatment
Work package 6: cost-effectiveness analysis
Patient and public involvement
Discussion
References
Acknowledgements
List of supplementary material
Attribution. Alistair Story; Elizabeth Garber; Robert W Aldridge; Catherine M Smith; Joe Hall; Gloria Ferenando et al. (2020). Management and control of tuberculosis control in socially complex groups: a research programme including three RCTs. NIHR Journals Library. Copyright © Queen’s Printer and Controller of HMSO 2020. This work was produced by Story et al. under the terms of a commissioning contract issued by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care. This issue may be freely reproduced for the purposes of private research and study and extracts (or indeed, the full report) may be included in professional journals provided that suitable acknowledgement is made and the reproduction is not associated with any form of advertising. Applications for commercial reproduction should be addressed to: NIHR Journals Library, National Institute for Health Research, Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre, Alpha House, University of Southampton Science Park, Southampton SO16 7NS, UK. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. NCBI Bookshelf NBK563462. CC BY 4.0. Original source ↗. Text reproduced from the Bookshelf XML without changing wording; figures, images and supplements are not reproduced.