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Tuberculosis incidence in foreign-born people residing in European countries in...
Vasiliu, A; Köhler, N; Altpeter, E; Ægisdóttir, TR; Amerali, M; de Oñate, WA; Bakos, Á; D'Amato, S; Cirillo, DM; van Crevel, R; Davidaviciene, E"Background European-specific policies for tuberculosis (TB) elimination require identification of key populations that benefit from TB screening. Aim We aimed to identify groups of foreign-born individuals residing in European countries that benefit most from targeted TB prevention screening. Methods The Tuberculosis Network European Trials group collected, by cross-sectional survey, numbers of foreign-born TB...
Introducing risk inequality metrics in tuberculosis policy development
Gomes, MGM; Oliveira, JF; Bertolde, A; Ayabina, D; Nguyen, TA; Maciel, EL; Duarte, R; Nguyen, BH; Shete, PB; Lienhardt, CGlobal stakeholders including the World Health Organization rely on predictive models for developing strategies and setting targets for tuberculosis care and control programs. Failure to account for variation in individual risk leads to substantial biases that impair data interpretation and policy decisions. Anticipated impediments to estimating heterogeneity for each parameter are discouraging despite consider...