Contact tracing for tuberculosis, Thailand/Suivi des contacts pour la turberculose, Thailande/Seguimiento de contactos por la tuberculosis, Tailandia

• Published in: Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2020-03, Vol.98 (3), p.212
• Main Authors: Imsanguan, Worarat, Bupachat, Surasit, Wanchaithanawong, Vanichaya, Luangjina, Sarmwai, Thawtheong, Sureerat, Nedsuwan, Supalert, Pungrassami, Petchawan, Mahasirimongkol, Surakameth, Wiriyaprasobchok, Amornrat, Kaewmamuang, Kulayanee, Kamolwat, Phalin, Ngamvithayapong-Yanai, Jintana
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Contact tracing; Management science; National health insurance; Tuberculosis
• ISSN: 0042-9686; 1564-0604
• DOI: 10.2471/BLT.19.239293

Approach We designed broader criteria for contact investigation and new screening practices and assessed the approach in a programme-based operational research study in 2017-2018. Clinic staff interviewed 100 index patients and asked them to give household and non-household contacts an invitation for a free screening and chest X-ray. Contact persons who attended received 250 Thai baht (about 8 United States dollars) allowance for transport. Approche Nous avons defini des criteres elargis pour l'enquete d'entourage et les nouvelles pratiques de depistage, puis evalue cette approche par le biais d'un programme de recherches menees sur le terrain en 2017-2018. Le personnel medical a interroge 100 patients de reference et leur a demande de transmettre a leurs contacts issus de l'environnement familial et extra-familial une invitation a un depistage et a une radiographie du thorax, tous deux gratuits. Les contacts qui se rendaient a ces examens recevaient 250 bahts thai'landais (l'equivalent de 8 dollars americains environ) d'indemnite de transport.