2014
Prospective evaluation of a complex public health intervention: lessons from an initial and follow-up cross-sectional survey of the tuberculosis strain typing service in England
Mears J, Abubakar I, Crisp D, Maguire H, Innes JA, Lilley M, Lord J, Cohen T, Borgdorff MW, Vynnycky E, McHugh TD, Sonnenberg P. Prospective evaluation of a complex public health intervention: lessons from an initial and follow-up cross-sectional survey of the tuberculosis strain typing service in England. BMC Public Health 2014, 14: 1023. PMID: 25273511, PMCID: PMC4194411, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-14-1023.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsAttitude of Health PersonnelBacterial Typing TechniquesClinical CompetenceCost-Benefit AnalysisCross-Sectional StudiesEnglandFemaleFollow-Up StudiesHealth ServicesHumansMaleMolecular EpidemiologyMycobacteriumPopulation SurveillanceProgram EvaluationProspective StudiesPublic HealthSurveys and QuestionnairesTuberculosisConceptsPublic health interventionsComplex public health interventionsCross-sectional surveyHealth interventionsNational public health interventionsStrain typingPublic health staffRepeated cross-sectional surveySignificant increaseMIRU-VNTR typingProportion of respondentsTB patientsSelf-rated knowledgeTB controlProspective evaluationMixed-method evaluationHealth staffProspective identificationMajority of respondentsService users' perceptionsMethodsAn onlineInterventionTypingFuture evaluationProfessional groups
2013
Evaluation of the Tuberculosis Strain Typing Service (TB-STS) in England
Mears J, Vynnycky E, Lord J, Borgdorff M, Cohen T, Abubakar I, Sonnenberg P, group O. Evaluation of the Tuberculosis Strain Typing Service (TB-STS) in England. The Lancet 2013, 382: s73. DOI: 10.1016/s0140-6736(13)62498-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchTuberculosis incidenceProportion of infectionsDiagnostic delayBase-case assumptionsLatent infectionPulmonary tuberculosis casesTuberculosis control effortsHigh-incidence settingsMycobacterium tuberculosis isolatesCluster investigationsTuberculosis notification ratesPost-implementation dataComplex public health interventionsPopulation-level interventionsPublic health interventionsMIRU-VNTR typingTuberculosis infectionTuberculosis casesPreventive treatmentPublic health outcomesNotification ratesTuberculosis isolatesSenior Research FellowshipDeterministic compartmental modelProportion of individuals