WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis. Module 4 : tuberculosis care and support / World Health Organization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

World Health Organization, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tuberculosis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF file (x, 44 pages))

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

WHO consolidated guidelines on tuberculosis

Place of Publication:

Geneva, Switzerland : World Health Organization, 2022.

Summary:

The WHO Consolidated Guidelines on Tuberculosis, Module 4: Treatment - Tuberculosis Care and Support informs health care professionals in Member States on how to improve treatment and care for patients with TB. These guidelines group all recommendations on TB care and support in one document and are complemented by an operational handbook. The guidelines are to be used primarily by national TB programmes, or their equivalents in Ministries of Health, stakeholders and technical organizations working on TB care in the public and private sectors and in the community.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

Executive summary

Introduction

Structure of the document

WHO policy recommendations

1. Care and support interventions for all people with TB

2. Models of care for people with drug-resistant TB

3. Models of care for children and adolescents exposed to TB or with TB disease

Research priorities

The effectiveness of different forms of interventions to improve treatment adherence

Models of care for all people with TB

Models of TB care for children and adolescents

References

Annexes

Annex 1. Experts involved in the development of the guidelines

Annex 2. PICO questions

Web Annexes

Web Annex 1. GRADE evidence profiles

Web Annex 2. Evidence-to-decision tables

Web Annex 3. Reports of the systematic reviews.

Notes:

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