Blar i Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care på tidsskrift "International Journal of Infectious Diseases"

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    • Are patients with pulmonary tuberculosis identified by active and by passive case detection different? A cross-sectional study in Pakistan 

      Ul Haq, Mahboob; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Qadeer, Ejaz; Habib, Hammad; Hussain, Kashif; Khan, Abdul Wali (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Objectives Our objective was to compare the characteristics of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) identified through “extended contact screening” (ECS) with those of patients identified through routine passive case ...

    • Building better tuberculosis control systems in a post-COVID world: learning from Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic 

      Fatima, Razia; Akhtar, Nasim; Yaqoob, Aashifa; Harries, Anthony D.; Khan, Mishal S. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Objectives All countries impacted by COVID-19 have had to change routine health service delivery. Although this has reversed some of the progress made in reducing the global burden of tuberculosis (TB) disease, there is ...

    • Diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis in Pakistan: Are national guidelines used by private healthcare providers? 

      Yaqoob, Aashifa; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Shewade, Hemant Deepak; Nisar, Nadia; Wali, Ahmed (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background The National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) in Pakistan developed, with the Pakistan Paediatric Association, a pediatric scoring chart to aid diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis (TB). Our study compared the ...

    • Extending contact screening within a 50-m radius of an index tuberculosis patient using Xpert MTB/RIF in urban Pakistan: Did it impact treatment outcomes? 

      Ul Haq, Mahboob; Hinderaker, Sven Gudmund; Fatima, Razia; Shewade, Hemant Deepak; Heldal, Einar; Latif, Abdullah; Kumar, Ajay M.V. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Background Pakistan implemented initiatives to detect tuberculosis (TB) patients through extended contact screening (ECS); it improved case detection but treatment outcomes need assessment. Objectives To compare ...

    • In-hospital mortality risk stratification in children aged under 5 years with pneumonia with or without pulse oximetry: A secondary analysis of the Pneumonia REsearch Partnership to Assess WHO REcommendations (PREPARE) dataset 

      Hooli, Shubhada; King, Carina; McCollum, Eric D.; Colbourn, Tim; Lufesi, Norman; Mwansambo, Charles; Gregory, Christopher J.; Thamthitiwat, Somsak; Cutland, Clare; Madhi, Shabir Ahmed; Nunes, Marta C.; Gessner, Bradford D.; Hazir, Tabish; Mathew, Joseph L.; Addo-Yobo, Emmanuel; Chisaka, Noel; Hassan, Mumtaz; Hibberd, Patricia L.; Jeena, Prakash; Lozano, Juan M.; MacLeod, William B.; Patel, Archana; Thea, Donald M.; Nguyen, Ngoc Tuong Vy; Zaman, Syed MA.; Ruvinsky, Raul O.; Lucero, Marilla; Kartasasmita, Cissy B.; Turner, Claudia; Asghar, Rai; Banajeh, Salem; Iqbal, Imran; Maulen-Radovan, Irene; Mino-Leon, Greta; Saha, Samir K.; Santosham, Mathuram; Singhi, Sunit; Awasthi, Shally; Bavdekar, Ashish; Chou, Monidarin; Nymadawa, Pagbajabyn; Pape, Jean-William; Paranhos-Baccala, Glaucia; Picot, Valentina Sanchez; Rakoto-Andrianarivelo, Mala; Rouzier, Vanessa; Russomando, Graciela; Sylla, Mariam; Vanhems, Philippe; Wang, Jianwei; Basnet, Sudha; Strand, Tor Arne; Neuman, Mark I.; Arroyo, Luis Martinez; Echavarria, Marcela; Bhatnagar, Shinjini; Wadhwa, Nitya; Lodha, Rakesh; Aneja, Satinder; Gentile, Angela; Chadha, Mandeep; Hirve, Siddhivinayak; O'Grady, Kerry-Ann F.; Clara, Alexey W.; Rees, Chris A.; Campbell, Harry; Nair, Harish; Falconer, Jennifer; Williams, Linda J.; Horne, Margaret; Qazi, Shamim A.; Nisar, Yasir Bin (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Objectives: We determined the pulse oximetry benefit in pediatric pneumonia mortality risk stratification and chest-indrawing pneumonia in-hospital mortality risk factors. Methods: We report the characteristics and ...