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Systematic Screening for Active Tuberculosis : Principles and Recommendations /
There have been calls to revisit the experiences of TB screening campaigns that were widely applied in Europe and North America in the mid-20th century as well as more recent experiences with TB screening in countries with a high burden of the disease and to assess their possible relevance for TB ca...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2013.
©2013 |
| Colección: | Documents for Sale.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Executive summary; Abbreviations; Definitions; 1. Purpose of guideline and target audience; 1.1 Purpose; 1.2 Target audience; 2. Definition of screening for active TB in risk groups; 2.1 Systematic screening for active TB; 2.2 Risk groups; 3. Rationale and objectives of screening for active TB; 3.1 Challenges to TB care and control; Large pool of undetected TB; Limitations of passive case-finding using sputum-smear microscopy; Reaching the poorest people more effectively; Detecting TB early in other vulnerable groups.
- 3.2 Objectives and goals of screening for active TB4. Guideline development process; 4.1 Scoping, Guideline Development Group and peer review; 4.2 GRADE tables and Decision tables; 4.3 Grading the recommendations; 4.4 Proposed subsidiary guideline products and implementation plan; 5. Summaries of the systematic reviews; 5.1 Review 1: systematic review of the benefits of screening for active TB to communities and individuals; 5.2 Review 2: systematic review of the sensitivity and specificity of different screening tools and algorithms; Screening in adults; Screening in children.
- 5.3 Review 3: systematic review of the number needed to screen in different risk groups5.4 Review 4: systematic review of the acceptability of screening; 6. Assessing TB screening against generic criteria for screening; 7. Key principles for screening for active TB; 8. Recommendations on risk groups to be screened for active TB; 8.1 Strong recommendations; 8.2 Conditional recommendations; 9. Algorithms for screening and diagnosis; 9.1 Screening adults and children aged 10 years and older; 9.2 Screening children younger than 10 years; 10. Monitoring and evaluation; 10.1 Proposed indicators.
- 10.2 Routines for recording and reporting10.3 Programmatic evaluations; 10.4 Monitoring time trends for reprioritization; 10.5 Research; Annex I. GRADE summary table: benefits of screening for tuberculosis, all risk groups combined; Annex II. GRADE summary tables: sensitivity and specificity of screening tools for tuberculosis; Annex III. Flow charts of algorithms for screening and diagnosing tuberculosis in adults with modelled yields and predictive values; Annex IV. Guideline Development Group, WHO secretariat and peer reviewers.