Treatment Guidelines Materials

This pamphlet explains how to collect a sputum specimen at home for laboratory analysis.

This book describes the national tuberculosis program model for preventing, controlling and treating tuberculosis. It reviews its historical background and scientific basis, as well as considering the context within which it is implemented, that is, countries with a high prevalence of tuberculosis. The author addresses the debates taking place not only within the tuberculosis community but also in the wider context of communicable disease control and health services organization in general.

This website is a comprehensive source of evidence syntheses, policies, guidelines, and research agendas on TB diagnosis. The website offers detailed guidance on how to conduct and report diagnostic research on TB, guidance on how to perform systematic reviews of diagnostics, tools on guideline development, including GRADE, and documents on improvement of laboratory quality and practice. All information is provided as open access, with no registration or fee requirements.

The TB course is intended as a refresher course for physicians (both public and private) that may be involved in the management and care of patients with TB. The course is developed as a preparation course to the MDR-TB course of WMA and both courses together offer a complete training module on TB. The refresher course will provide basic clinical care information for TB including the latest diagnostics, treatment and information about multidrug-resistant TB.

This book provides guidelines to national TB program managers, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations, and donor agencies on effective management of TB. The guidelines focus on the technical and managerial aspects of treatment.

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.