India, July 9 -- By Shalini Bhardwaj

Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], July 9 (ANI): More than half of all tuberculosis (TB) deaths occur within the first two months of treatment. In response, the Indian Council of Medical Research-National Institute of Epidemiology (ICMR-NIE) has introduced a new alert feature designed to immediately notify frontline healthcare workers when a patient is identified as severely ill following a TB diagnosis.

The predictive model is expected to reduce the average time from diagnosis to hospital admission for severely ill patients with tuberculosis.

The ICMR-NIE has recently launched a predictive model that helps the state reduce TB deaths.

The predictive model was developed using data from 57,803 adults diag...