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Quality of Tuberculosis Care in Mumbai, India

NCT02874755 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 300

Last updated 2017-08-29

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of the Private Provider Interface Agency (PPIA) program on quality of care. The PPIA is a tuberculosis pilot program implemented in the private health sector of Mumbai city, India.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Tuberculosis Program

The intervention includes a variety of (1) non-financial incentives that are intended to reduce clinical and financial costs for presumptive TB patients and TB cases for diagnostic testing and treatment (free digital chest X-ray, free sputum microscopy, free or subsidized drug-susceptibility testing, free first-line anti-TB treatment) within the PPIA network, and (2) training or certified medical education (CME) sessions for the providers from the PPIA. Meanwhile, program marketing, CMEs, and other advocacy efforts are aimed to raise awareness in the communities.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • World Bank

    collaborator OTHER

  • Institute of Socio-Economic Research on Development and Democracy (ISERDD)

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • ACCESS Health International

    collaborator OTHER

  • McGill University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD · McGill University

  • Jishnu Das, PhD · World Bank

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-03-10
Completion
2017-03-10

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