Abstract
India's Revised National Tuberculosis Control programme employs passive case detection. The new sputum smear-positive case detection rate is less than 70% in Odisha State. During April-June 2012, active case finding (ACF) was conducted through awareness drives and field-based tuberculosis (TB) screening in select communities with the lowest case detection rates. During the campaign, 240 sputum smear-positive TB cases were detected. The number of smear-positive cases detected increased by 11% relative to April-June 2011 in intervention communities compared to an 0.8% increase in non-intervention communities. ACF brought TB services closer to the community and increased TB case detection.
Publication types
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.
MeSH terms
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Antitubercular Agents / therapeutic use
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Awareness*
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Bacteriological Techniques*
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Community Health Services*
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice*
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Health Promotion*
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Health Services Accessibility
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Humans
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India / epidemiology
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Mass Screening / methods*
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis / drug effects
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Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification*
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Patient Education as Topic
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Predictive Value of Tests
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Program Evaluation
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Sputum / microbiology
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis*
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / epidemiology
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / microbiology
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Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / psychology