Facility TB risk assessment tool
Started by Moses Bateganya on 27 Jan 2010
Does anybody have a "Facility TB Risk Assessment tool" adapted for high TB Burden countries or or low resource settings.
Moses
Started by Moses Bateganya on 27 Jan 2010
Does anybody have a "Facility TB Risk Assessment tool" adapted for high TB Burden countries or or low resource settings.
Moses
Maria Pia Sanchez, FNP, MS, MPH
I have found the assessment tool developed by the Columbia U folks to be very helpful and we have adapted it for use in Afghanistan. It is posted on the GHD site- here is the link http://www.ghdonline.org/ic/resource/tbic-baseline-assessment-tool/
Good luck
Maria Pia Sanchez, FNP, MS, MPH
Principal Technical Advisor
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Management Sciences for Health
12:39 PM, 27 Jan 2010 | Permalink
Moses Bateganya
Thank you very much for sharing. Would there be an additional tol similar to one in the 1994 MMWR CDC guidelines which classifies facilities into minimal risk (No TB patients in the facility or community), Low risk (Fewer than 3 patients admitted in last year), medium risk (3-6 patients admitted in last year) and ongoing risk (>6). These number apply to low TB incidence. Are there numbers that would be used to classify facilities in high incidence settings?
Moses
1:11 PM, 27 Jan 2010 | Permalink
Marina Shulgina
Dear colleagues!
I think the Columbian assessment tool is very helpful. There is also a good WHO assessment tool issued in 2009 "WHO policy on TB infection control in health-care facilities, congregate settings and households". There is a tool to estimate risk ratio described there.
Best regards,
M. Shulgina
2:43 PM, 30 Jan 2010 | Permalink