Fig 2. Top three characteristics ranked as priorities by private practitioners for a new point-of-care test for TB in Chennai, India.

Private practitioners were asked to rank their top three priorities for a hypothetical new rapid TB diagnostic test under development that could be used to replace the current TB tests and that could potentially be done rapidly in their clinic, like a pregnancy test or blood glucose test. Dark gray bars represent the characteristic ranked as the most important priority by practitioners, light gray presents the second most important characteristic, and medium gray the third most important characteristic. There were 24 practitioners that were not interested in performing POC testing who did not answer this question.