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Identifying Missed Opportunities for Preventing TB: a Resource for TB Programs

This product will assist health department TB programs to document ways to decrease the number of TB cases. Specifically, programs can identify (1) providers who served the patient up to the TB diagnosis, and (2) points at which the provider failed to carry out TB testing and treatment recommendations. The product includes guidelines for completing the form, displaying data for analysis, and translating data into action.

Author:

Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Audiences:

Managers and Supervisors

Topic:

Case Management, Diagnosis, Program Evaluation, Treatment Guidelines Materials, Treatment - Latent TB infection (Inactive TB), Program Management, TB Skin Test, Treatment- TB Disease, TB Treatment

Country of Origin:

United States

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