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Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection : A Field Experiment in India (English)

Peer referrals are a common strategy for addressing asymmetric information in contexts such as the labor market. They could be especially valuable for increasing testing and treatment of infectious diseases, where peers may have advantages over health workers in both identifying new patients and providing them credible information, but they are rare in that context. In an experiment with 3,182 patients at 128 tuberculosis (TB) treatment centers in...
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Goldbergy, Jessica; Macisz, Mario; Chintaguntax, Pradeep.

Leveraging Patients' Social Networks to Overcome Tuberculosis Underdetection : A Field Experiment in India (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/730491553840037891

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