Strengthening health systems to improve the value of tuberculosis diagnostics in South Africa: A cost and cost-effectiveness analysis.

Strengthening health systems to improve the value of tuberculosis diagnostics in South Africa: A cost and cost-effectiveness analysis.

<h4>Background</h4>In South Africa, replacing smear microscopy with Xpert-MTB/RIF (Xpert) for tuberculosis diagnosis did not reduce mortality and was cost-neutral. The unchanged mortality has been attributed to suboptimal Xpert implementation. We developed a mathematical model to explore...

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Main Authors: Nicola Foster, Lucy Cunnama, Kerrigan McCarthy, Lebogang Ramma, Mariana Siapka, Edina Sinanovic, Gavin Churchyard, Katherine Fielding, Alison D Grant, Susan Cleary
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0251547

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