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WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis : systematic screening for tuberculosis disease / World Health Organization.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- World Health Organization, author, issuing body.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tuberculosis.
- World health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (99 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis
- Place of Publication:
- Geneva : World Health Organization, [2021]
- Summary:
- The WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 2: screening - systematic screening for tuberculosis disease is an updated and consolidated summary of WHO recommendations on systematic screening for tuberculosis (TB) disease, containing 17 recommendations for populations in which TB screening should be conducted and tools to be used for TB screening. TB screening is strongly recommendations for household and close contacts of individuals with TB, people living with HIV, miners exposed to silica dust, and prisoners. In addition, screening is conditionally recommended for people with risk factors for TB attending health care, and for communities with risk factors for TB and limited access to care (e.g. homeless, urban poor, refugees, migrants). General population screening is recommended in high-burden settings (0.5% prevalence or higher). Symptoms, chest radiography (CXR), and molecular WHO-recommended rapid diagnostic tests for TB are recommended as screening tools for all adults eligible for screening. Computer-aided detection programmes are recommended as alternatives to human interpretation of CXR in settings where trained personnel are scarce. For people living with HIV, C-reactive protein is also a good screening tool. This guideline document is accompanied by an operational handbook, the WHO operational handbook on tuberculosis. Module 2: screening - systematic screening for tuberculosis disease , that presents principles of screening, steps in planning and implementing a screening programme, and algorithm options for screening different populations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (NCBI, viewed November 6, 2022).
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