{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,30]],"date-time":"2026-01-30T03:39:16Z","timestamp":1769744356032,"version":"3.49.0"},"reference-count":0,"publisher":"International Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease","issue":"Supplement 2","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["public health action"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2014,10]]},"abstract":"<jats:p>\n                    <jats:bold>Setting:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Tuberculosis (TB) health facilities in the Republic of Moldova, where various incentives were provided to TB patients to improve treatment outcomes.\n                    <jats:bold>Objective:<\/jats:bold>\n                    To compare treatment outcomes among new drug-susceptible TB patients registered for treatment before (2008) and after (2011) introduction of incentives.\n                    <jats:bold>Design:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Retrospective cohort study using data from the national electronic patient database and incentive registers.\n                    <jats:bold>Results:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Of 2378 patients registered in 2011, 1895 (80%) received incentives (cash, food vouchers, travel reimbursement). Compared to 2008 (no incentives,\n                    <jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 2492), the patients registered with incentives in 2011 had higher treatment success (88% vs. 79%,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001) and lower proportions of unsuccessful outcomes: loss to follow-up (5% vs. 10%,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001), death (5% vs. 6%,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    = 0.03) and failure (2% vs. 5%,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001). In multivariate analysis (log-binomial regression) using the intention-to-treat approach, provision of incentives was independently associated with an overall reduction in unsuccessful outcomes of 50% (RR 0.5, 95%CI 0.45\u20130.62,\n                    <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\n                    &lt; 0.001), after adjusting for other confounders such as sex, age, education, occupation, residence, homelessness, type of TB and human immunodeficiency virus status.\n                    <jats:bold>Conclusion:<\/jats:bold>\n                    Provision of incentives to TB patients significantly improved treatment success rates and needs to continue. Treatment retention increased, thus potentially preventing drug resistance, a serious problem in the Republic of Moldova.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.5588\/pha.14.0047","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2014,10,21]],"date-time":"2014-10-21T18:23:11Z","timestamp":1413915791000},"page":"S59-S63","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":39,"title":["Do incentives improve tuberculosis treatment outcomes in the Republic of Moldova?"],"prefix":"10.5588","volume":"4","author":[{"given":"A.","family":"Ciobanu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"L.","family":"Domente","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"V.","family":"Soltan","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S.","family":"Bivol","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"L.","family":"Severin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"V.","family":"Plesca","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"R.","family":"Van den Bergh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"A. 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