Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Case-Finding Strategies: Scoping Review.

Background: Finding individuals with drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is important to control the pandemic and improve patient clinical outcomes. To our knowledge, systematic reviews assessing the effectiveness, cost-effectiveness, acceptability, and feasibility of different DR-TB case-finding strategies to inform research, policy, and practice, have not been conducted and the scope of primary research is unknown.

Objective: We therefore assessed the available literature on DR-TB case-finding strategies.