Treatment Guidelines Materials

This manual provides supervisors with methods for training and tools to assess a health care worker’s field investigation skills including ability to set priorities, locate patients, and provide motivation and education to ensure medical evaluation, utilize appropriate investigation techniques, and disposition investigations in a timely manner. Also presented are recommendations for documenting and retaining work assignments and evaluation of field activities.

This report presents information about the Global TB Drug Facility, a program designed to ensure access to and the availability of TB drugs.

This manual has been written with the aim of developing the knowledge, awareness, and skills of primary health care providers. Primary health care providers can play an important role in tuberculosis control through early detection of the disease, referral for treatment, and involvement in directly observed therapy. This manual is particularly relevant to primary health care providers in the countries of eastern Europe, the Baltic States, and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).

This guideline is intended to help nurses in their role of detecting TB cases, providing care, and managing TB treatment. It provides a nursing approach to planning and delivering patient care, aimed at improving access and quality of care throughout the treatment period. It offers a review of TB and multidrug-resistant TB (MDR TB) and the directly observed treatment short-course (DOTS) and DOTS-Plus strategy, as well as guidance on how to adapt TB control information for local program implementation.

This report presents the findings of a short-term study to examine the risk of TB among health care workers. It discusses the possible effects of federal guidelines, responses to resurgent TB, and proposed strategies for eliminating TB in the United States and worldwide.

This guide answers questions about using respirators to prevent TB transmission.

This guideline outlines the steps involved in conducting a TB interview for a contact investigation.

This videotape and CD-ROM provide guidance to respiratory protection administrators in the development of programs to prevent TB through respirator use.

These four self-study modules cover public health and public nursing issues, the fundamentals of TB case management, leadership skills of the nurse case manager, and case management of pediatric patients with TB.

This book is for health care workers considering embarking on TB control in prisons and covers structural, administrative, and medical issues. It is designed primarily for use in settings where there is a high incidence of TB and limited resources.