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Facility TB Profile: Working With Community Health Agencies to Strengthen LTBI Activities

This resource will provide health departments with the ability to identify health care facilities in the community where targeted TB testing and treatment of LTBI are likely to be most successful and efficient. Used in conjunction with another product developed by the New Jersey Medical School National TB Center (NTBC), Identifying Missed Opportunities for Preventing TB, health departments should be able to strengthen activities in specific target facilities in the community.

Author:

Global Tuberculosis Institute at Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Audiences:

Health Professionals, Managers and Supervisors

Topic:

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

Country of Origin:

United States

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