Provider reported barriers and solutions to improve testing among tuberculosis patients ‘eligible for drug susceptibility test’: A qualitative study from programmatic setting in India

• Hemant Deepak Shewade ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hemant Deepak Shewade, Arun M. Kokane, Akash Ranjan Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hemantjipmer@gmail.com

  ¶‡ HDS, AMK and ARS are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), New Delhi, India, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8242-1911

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• Arun M. Kokane ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hemant Deepak Shewade, Arun M. Kokane, Akash Ranjan Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HDS, AMK and ARS are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Akash Ranjan Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Hemant Deepak Shewade, Arun M. Kokane, Akash Ranjan Singh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ HDS, AMK and ARS are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Community Medicine and Family Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Malik Parmar,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office in India, New Delhi, India

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• Manoj Verma,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State TB cell, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Prabha Desikan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Bhopal Memorial Hospital and Research Center, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Sheeba Naz Khan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation State TB cell, Department of Health and Family Welfare, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India

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• Ajay M. V. Kumar

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), New Delhi, India, International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (The Union), Paris, France

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