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概括
改善结核病 (TB) 诊断测试以积极发现病例 (ACF) 可以增加治疗机会. 快速测试结果,而不仅仅是更高的灵敏度,在结核病查计划中为公共卫生提供了显著的好处.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
- 流行病学 流行病学
- 卫生经济学 卫生经济学
背景情况:
- 目前对结核病 (TB) 的活跃病例发现 (ACF) 面临成本,操作障碍和诊断测试灵敏度的限制.
- 这些局限性对于优先考虑结核病测试开发的相对流行病学重要性尚不清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为改善社区结核病ACF干预措施的确认诊断测试的影响建模.
- 为了比较增强测试灵敏度,样本类型,结果周转时间和结核病诊断,死亡率和传播成本的影响.
主要方法:
- 一个国家过渡模型模拟了一次性,以社区为基础的ACF干预,预算为100万美元.
- 与目前基于唾液的测试 (Xpert Ultra) 与在乌干达流行人口中假设的改进测试进行了比较.
- 评估了包括提高灵敏度,非吐样本,立即结果和降低成本在内的改进.
主要成果:
- 通过当前的测试,ACF达到目标人群的21%,将651人连接到治疗中,并避免了76人死亡.
- 证实性测试的敏感度增加最改善了结核病治疗的开始 (14%的增加).
- 检测结果的立即转变导致结核病死亡率和传播率降低最多 (11%的下降).
结论:
- 提高社区查结核病确认测试的可访问性和速度可能比仅仅提高敏感性更为有利于人口健康.
- 对ACF影响的显著改善 (>20%) 需要除了确认性诊断测试之外的改进.
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