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WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis : rapid diagnostics for tuberculosis detection / World Health Organization.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization, author, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tuberculosis--Diagnosis.
- Tuberculosis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 137 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 2021 update.
- Other Title:
- WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, [2021]
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Molecular assays intended as initial tests
- Guideline Development Group
- External Review Group
- Systematic review team
- Consultants with additional technical expertise
- Observers
- WHO steering committee
- Funding
- Loop-mediated isothermal amplification
- WHO Steering Group
- Members of the WHO GDG
- Systematic review authors
- Acknowledgement of financial support
- First-line line probe assay
- Second-line line probe assay
- Abbreviations and acronyms
- Definitions
- Executive summary
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Background
- 1.2. Scope of the document
- 1.3. Target audience
- 2. Recommendations
- 2.1. Initial diagnostic tests for diagnosis of TB with drug-resistance detection
- Research priorities
- Implementation considerations
- Findings of the review and interviews
- User perspective
- Cost-effectiveness analysis
- Justification and evidence
- Test description
- Recommendation
- High complexity reverse hybridization-based NAATs for detection of pyrazinamide resistance
- Performance of SL-LPA on sputum specimens and culture isolates
- Recommendations
- Second-line LPAs
- References
- Annex 1: Guideline development methods
- Methods used to develop World Health Organization guidelines
- Formulation of the recommendations
- Priority of a problem
- Test accuracy
- Balance between desirable and undesirable effects
- Certainty of the evidence
- Certainty of management.
- Confidence in values and preferences and their variability
- Resource requirements
- Cost-effectiveness
- Equity
- Acceptability
- Feasibility
- Annex 2: Conflict of interest assessment for Guideline Development Group and External Review Group members.
- Notes:
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (NCBI, viewed November 6, 2022).
- Includes bibliographical references.
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