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TIME Impact – a new user-friendly tuberculosis (TB) model to inform TB policy decisions

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Medicine, March 2016
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Title
TIME Impact – a new user-friendly tuberculosis (TB) model to inform TB policy decisions
Published in
BMC Medicine, March 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12916-016-0608-4
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Authors

R. M. G. J. Houben, M. Lalli, T. Sumner, M. Hamilton, D. Pedrazzoli, F. Bonsu, P. Hippner, Y. Pillay, M. Kimerling, S. Ahmedov, C. Pretorius, R. G. White

Abstract

Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death from infectious disease worldwide, predominantly affecting low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where resources are limited. As such, countries need to be able to choose the most efficient interventions for their respective setting. Mathematical models can be valuable tools to inform rational policy decisions and improve resource allocation, but are often unavailable or inaccessible for LMICs, particularly in TB. We developed TIME Impact, a user-friendly TB model that enables local capacity building and strengthens country-specific policy discussions to inform support funding applications at the (sub-)national level (e.g. Ministry of Finance) or to international donors (e.g. the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria).TIME Impact is an epidemiological transmission model nested in TIME, a set of TB modelling tools available for free download within the widely-used Spectrum software. The TIME Impact model reflects key aspects of the natural history of TB, with additional structure for HIV/ART, drug resistance, treatment history and age. TIME Impact enables national TB programmes (NTPs) and other TB policymakers to better understand their own TB epidemic, plan their response, apply for funding and evaluate the implementation of the response.The explicit aim of TIME Impact's user-friendly interface is to enable training of local and international TB experts towards independent use. During application of TIME Impact, close involvement of the NTPs and other local partners also builds critical understanding of the modelling methods, assumptions and limitations inherent to modelling. This is essential to generate broad country-level ownership of the modelling data inputs and results. In turn, it stimulates discussions and a review of the current evidence and assumptions, strengthening the decision-making process in general.TIME Impact has been effectively applied in a variety of settings. In South Africa, it informed the first South African HIV and TB Investment Cases and successfully leveraged additional resources from the National Treasury at a time of austerity. In Ghana, a long-term TIME model-centred interaction with the NTP provided new insights into the local epidemiology and guided resource allocation decisions to improve impact.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 204 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 35 17%
Student > Master 32 15%
Student > Ph. D. Student 27 13%
Other 11 5%
Student > Bachelor 11 5%
Other 38 18%
Unknown 54 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 55 26%
Nursing and Health Professions 22 11%
Social Sciences 14 7%
Immunology and Microbiology 11 5%
Mathematics 7 3%
Other 34 16%
Unknown 65 31%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 September 2021.
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#2,875,540
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#1,714
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#47,505
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Medicine
#26
of 52 outputs
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