Involving private doctors in the national tuberculosis programme in India
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/09/009672
- Lead Sponsor
- Institute of Tropical Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Closed to Recruitment of Participants
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 200
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
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
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 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 Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 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