None listed
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Intervention PPs: Private practitioners in belonging to the intervention arm
Control Intervention1: Control PPs: Private practitioners belonging to control arm.
Sponsors
Institute of Tropical Medicine
Institute of Public Health
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: For-profit formal allopathic private practtioners practicing permanently in Tumkur city. I categorized allopathic private practtioners into general practitioners (GPs) without advanced training and specialists with advanced training. Only relevant specialists who are potentially consulted by patients with chest symptoms such as chest physicians, general physicians (specialists in general medicine),surgeons, paediatricians, gynaecologists are included in this study
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: PPs practicing in Tumkur city less than once per week 2. PPs working in the government sector in the morning hours and running their private practice in the evening hours (not considered a priority because they are assumed to be already exposed to the RNTCP). 3. â??Non- relevantâ?? specialists who are less likely to be consulted by patients with chest symptoms in their routine practice such as ENT surgeons, ophthalmologists, orthopaedicians, dermatologists, radiologists, and anaesthetists
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| the proportion of PPs referring presumptive TB cases to the RNTCP (â??referring PPsâ??) and the proportion of PPs notifying TB cases on private treatment (â??notifying PPsâ??) to the RNTCP, in the intervention versus control groupTimepoint: Baseline and Endline | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| mean rate of referral of presumptive TB cases by PPs per year and the mean rate of notification of TB cases by PPs per yearTimepoint: Baseline and endline | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactVijayashree Holalkere Yellappa
Institute of Public Health
Outcome results
None listed