Pilot project

  • Title Mystery clients to assess and improve quality of TB care in India
  • Granting Agency Grand Challenges Canada
  • Period 1 Oct. 2013 – 31 March 2015
  • Amount $113,000 CAD

Main project

  • Title Quality of tuberculosis care in urban India
  • Granting Agency Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Period 4 Nov. 2013 – 30 June 2022
  • Amount $2,351,021 USD

This project is using standardized patients (or mystery patients) to evaluate the quality of tuberculosis care in urban India.

Publications

Saria, Vaibhav; Das, Veena; Daniels, Benjamin; Pai, Madhukar; Das, Jishnu

The family doctor: health, kin testing and primary care in Patna, India (Journal Article)

In: Anthropology & Medicine, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 246-261, 2023.

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Svadzian, Anita; Daniels, Benjamin; Sulis, Giorgia; Das, Jishnu; Daftary, Amrita; Kwan, Ada; Das, Veena; Das, Ranendra; Pai, Madhukar

Use of standardised patients to assess tuberculosis case management by private pharmacies in Patna, India: A repeat cross-sectional study (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Global Public Health, vol. 3, no. 5, pp. e0001898, 2023.

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Svadzian, Anita; Daniels, Benjamin; Sulis, Giorgia; Das, Jishnu; Daftary, Amrita; Kwan, Ada; Das, Veena; Das, Ranendra; Pai, Madhukar

Do Private Providers Initiate Anti-Tuberculosis Therapy on the Basis of Chest Radiographs? A Standardised Patient Study in Urban India (Journal Article)

In: The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia, vol. 13, pp. 100152, 2023.

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Daniels, Benjamin; Shah, Daksha; Kwan, Ada T; Das, Ranendra; Das, Veena; Puri, Varsha; Tipre, Pranita; Waghmare, Upalimitra; Gomare, Mangala; Keskar, Padmaja; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar

Tuberculosis diagnosis and management in the public versus private sector: a standardised patients study in Mumbai, India (Journal Article)

In: BMJ Global Health, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. e009657, 2022.

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Sulis, Giorgia; Adam, Pierrick; Nafade, Vaidehi; Gore, Genevieve; Daniels, Benjamin; Daftary, Amrita; Das, Jishnu; Gandra, Sumanth; Pai, Madhukar

Antibiotic prescription practices in primary care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review and meta-analysis (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Medicine, vol. 17, no. 6, pp. 1-20, 2020.

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Nafade, Vaidehi; Huddart, Sophie; Sulis, Giorgia; Daftary, Amrita; Miraj, Sonal Sekhar; Saravu, Kavitha; Pai, Madhukar

Over-the-counter antibiotic dispensing by pharmacies: a standardised patient study in Udupi district, India (Journal Article)

In: BMJ Global Health, vol. 4, no. 6, 2019.

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Kwan, Ada; Daniels, Benjamin; Bergkvist, Sofi; Das, Veena; Pai, Madhukar; Das, Jishnu

Use of standardised patients for healthcare quality research in low-and middle-income countries (Journal Article)

In: BMJ Global Health, vol. 4, no. 5, pp. e001669, 2019.

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Daniels, Benjamin; Kwan, Ada; Pai, Madhukar; Das, Jishnu

Lessons on the quality of tuberculosis diagnosis from standardized patients in China, India, Kenya, and South Africa (Journal Article)

In: Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, vol. 16, pp. 100109, 2019.

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Daniels, Benjamin; Kwan, Ada; Satyanarayana, Srinath; Subbaraman, Ramnath; Das, Ranendra K; Das, Veena; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar

Use of standardised patients to assess gender differences in quality of tuberculosis care in urban India: a two-city, cross-sectional study (Journal Article)

In: The Lancet Global Health, pp. 1-11, 2019.

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Subbaraman, Ramnath; Nathavitharana, Ruvandhi R; Mayer, Kenneth H; Satyanarayana, Srinath; Chadha, Vineet K; Arinaminpathy, Nimalan; Pai, Madhukar

Constructing care cascades for active tuberculosis: A strategy for program monitoring and identifying gaps in quality of care (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Medicine, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. e1002754, 2019.

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Pai, Madhukar; Temesgen, Zelalem

Quality: the missing ingredient in TB care and control (Journal Article)

In: Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, vol. 14, pp. 12-13, 2019.

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Kwan, Ada; Daniels, Benjamin; Saria, Vaibhav; Satyanarayana, Srinath; Subbaraman, Ramnath; McDowell, Andrew; Bergkvist, Sofi; Das, Ranendra K.; Das, Veena; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar

Variations in the quality of tuberculosis care in urban India: A cross-sectional, standardized patient study in two cities (Journal Article)

In: PLoS Medicine, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. e1002653, 2018.

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Miller, Rosalind; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar

Quality of tuberculosis care by Indian pharmacies: mystery clients offer new insights (Journal Article)

In: Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases, vol. 10, pp. 6-8, 2017.

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Cazabon, Danielle; Alsdurf, Hannah; Satyanarayana, Srinath; Nathavitharana, Ruvandhi; Subbaraman, Ramnath; Daftary, Amrita; Pai, Madhukar

Quality of tuberculosis care in high burden countries: the urgent need to address gaps in the care cascade (Journal Article)

In: International Journal of Infectious Diseases, vol. 56, pp. 111–116, 2017.

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Satyanarayana, Srinath; Kwan, Ada; Daniels, Benjamin; Subbaraman, Ramnath; McDowell, Andrew; Bergkvist, Sofi; Das, Ranendra K; Das, Veena; Das, Jishnu; Pai, Madhukar

Use of standardised patients to assess antibiotic dispensing for tuberculosis by pharmacies in urban India: a cross-sectional study (Journal Article)

In: The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1261–1268, 2016.

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McDowell, Andrew; Pai, Madhukar

Alternative medicine: an ethnographic study of how practitioners of Indian medical systems manage TB in Mumbai (Journal Article)

In: Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, vol. 110, no. 3, pp. 192–198, 2016.

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McDowell, A; Pai, M

Treatment as diagnosis and diagnosis as treatment: empirical management of presumptive tuberculosis in India (Journal Article)

In: The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 536–543, 2016.

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Das, Jishnu; Kwan, Ada; Daniels, Benjamin; Satyanarayana, Srinath; Subbaraman, Ramnath; Bergkvist, Sofi; Das, Ranendra K; Das, Veena; Pai, Madhukar

Use of standardised patients to assess quality of tuberculosis care: a pilot, cross-sectional study (Journal Article)

In: The Lancet Infectious Diseases, vol. 15, no. 11, pp. 1305–1313, 2015.

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News

Media coverage of our pharmacy SP review (Read the review)
Finding the missing millions affected by tuberculosis is one thing; treating them is another