
• Pinpointing Drop-Off Gaps: They clearly identify where and why patients fall out of the system (such as pre-treatment loss to follow-up or diagnostic attrition) rather than just looking at overall case counts.
• Targeted Interventions: Program managers can use cascade data to design and deploy specific fixes—like community health worker contact tracing, decentralized testing, or digital adherence tools—where they are needed most Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
• Narrow Clinical Focus: Traditional care cascades focus heavily on the linear clinical process—from initial diagnosis through completion of medical treatment—while ignoring the social roots of TB as a social disease.
• Overlooking Broader Recovery: True recovery is heavily influenced by non-clinical factors like severe undernutrition, housing stability, poverty, and local stigma, which standard cascades fail to measure or address. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.