Involving private practitioners in the Indian tuberculosis programme: a randomised trial.

Objectives: To assess a multicomponent intervention to improve private practitioners (PPs) involvement in referral of presumptive pulmonary TB (PTB) cases to the Revised National TB Control Programme (RNTCP) for sputum examination.

Methods: Randomised controlled trial. We randomly allocated all 189 eligible PPs in Tumkur city, South India, to intervention or control arm.

Private practitioners' contributions to the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme in a South Indian district.

Setting: Tumkur District, South India.

Objective: To assess the participation of for-profit, formal private practitioners (PPs) under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme's (RNTCP's) public-private mix (PPM) schemes and document their contribution to RNTCP pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) case finding.

Design: RNTCP reports at district TB centre were reviewed.