Tuberculosis: Arresting Everyone's Enemy, 2nd Edition
2008. 192 pages. ISBN: 978-1-59940-066-2
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Identifying tuberculosis quickly and reducing any risk to other patients and health care workers requires continued vigilance, despite low rates of disease. Keeping tuberculosis at bay is a persistent concern, particularly in immunocomprimised patients as well as other high-risk populations such as travelers, health care workers, long-term care residents, and inmates.
While hospitals have made great strides in implementing the 1994 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines, other types of health care organizations are now encouraged to develop a tuberculosis infection control plan for their setting. Tuberculosis, Arresting Everyone's Enemy addresses how various health care organizations can successfully implement the new CDC guidelines and minimize transmission to their patient and staff population. This guide:
- Succinctly summarizes CDC's December 2005 Tuberculosis Guidelines
- Details the Joint Commission Infection Control and Environment of Care requirements for minimizing transmission risk
- Provides case study examples of how various health care organizations have developed infection control plans
- Describes advantages of the newer blood test for Mycobacterium tuberculosis to rapidly identify infectious patients; and more
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TBB06
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