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In India, about one third of tuberculosis (T patients diagnosed at tertiary hospitals are missed during a referral to peripheral health institutes for treatment. To address this, we assessed whether mobile voice call reminders to TB patients after diagnosis at a tertiary hospital decrease the proportion of "pretreatment loss to follow-up" (PTLFU), compared with the conventional paper-based referral. A two-group parallel-arm randomized controlled trial was conducted. The study was conducted in a tertiary care hospital at Puducherry, South India. All newly