TB Training Roadmap-Hospitals & Nursing Homes

Organization: CDC

Year: 2011

Description: The Core Curriculum is intended for use as a self-study guide or reference manual for clinicians and other public health professionals caring for people with or at high risk for TB disease or infection. In addition, the Core Curriculum includes a slide set designed to be useful in developing educational programs.

Format: Manual

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Organization: CDC

Year: 2003

Description:This report reviews previous guidelines and strategies for preventing environment-associated infections in health-care facilities and offers recommendations. 

Format: MMWR Guidelines

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Organization: CDC

Year: 2005

Description: These guidelines have been expanded to address a broader concept; health-care–associated settings go beyond the previously defined facilities. The term "health-care setting" includes many types, such as inpatient settings, outpatient settings, TB clinics, settings in correctional facilities in which health care is delivered, settings in which home-based health-care and emergency medical services are provided, and laboratories handling clinical specimens that might contain M. tuberculosis. 

Format: MMWR Guidelines

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Organization: Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC)

Year: 2014

Description:This webinar was created for nurses and other health care workers who interact with TB patients or who supervise staff working with TB patients in a health care facility.

Format: Webinar (48:36 minutes)

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