Case Management

This report describes three cases that illustrate several issues associated with the deportation of patients with incomplete treatment of TB disease after detention. These cases highlight the need for interagency coordination to ensure completion of treatment for persons being evaluated or treated for TB.

This brochure contains information on Cure-TB, a referral program for tuberculosis patients and their contacts moving between the US and Mexico.

This edition of the Los Angeles County Public Health Newsletter, The Public's Health, discusses World TB Day, drug-resistant TB, management of non-compliant TB patients, and the burden of TB in Los Angeles county.

This slide set was developed as an accompaniment to Targeted Tuberculin Testing and Treatment of Latent Tuberculosis Infection, a joint statement by CDC and the American Thoracic Society, and subsequent updates. The slide set provides an overview of the current recommendations for the treatment of latent tuberculosis.
The slide set also includes case studies to initiate discussion of LTBI diagnosis and treatment.

This report describes the distribution of TB cases among the population of California and the demographic and clinical characteristics of TB cases in 2003. It presents the risk factors for TB, drug resistance, treatment outcomes of the reporting jurisdictions in California, and recent trends.

This electronic resource provides an interface for entering patient data to create a drug-o-gram. It includes a user's guide with instructions and teaching points. To download the program, Windows 2000/XP and Microsoft Access are required.

These guidelines offer recommendations for TB control programmes and medical workers in middle- and low- income countries faced with drug-resistant forms of TB, especially MDR-TB.

This package includes an instruction guide and a DVD. The DVD illustrates the benefits of adopting cohort review and highlights the roles of the cohort review team members. The guide explains the three key elements of the cohort review process and how to adapt the process to your own TB program. The DVD was produced by the CDC, Creative Digital Group, and the Constella Group. The instruction guide was developed by the CDC and the Charles P. Felton National Tuberculosis Center.

The information kit is also available with a videotape.

This document guides NTPs on how to engage all relevant health care providers in TB control and thereby promote the use of evidence-based, International Standards for TB Care. The experience and evidence on scaling up and sustaining PPM is now clearly emerging. The authors hope that this document will help countries to scale up PPM DOTS more rapidly and contribute significantly to achieving the TB-related Millennium Development Goal.

This educational CD is intended to improve the management and care of pediatric tuberculosis in the private sector. Includes four recorded presentations, Q&A Sessions, and many other learning and resource materials. Free CE and CME offered.

Pediatric TB Session 1 – Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Childhood TB: How are kids different?
Presenter: Jeffrey Starke, MD

Pediatric TB Session 2 – Latent TB Infection: Who, How, When and Why?
Presenter: Robert Lawrence, MD