Confidentiality in TB Control
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Date: 2010-08-02

Confidentiality in TB Control - Centers for Disease Control 1999 - Disc SP 7-8 - Produced with the Francis J. Curry National TB Center. Provides information on specific situations in which a health care worker needs to consider and protect the rights of TB patients, developing trust with the patient, limiting disclosures, negotiating conflicts, and following due process.  The surveillance module will provide health care workers information on conducting TB surveillance and case management in hospitals and institutional settings including the process for identification of suspected or confirmed TB cases by routine case reporting and by active case finding through periodic visits to laboratories and pharmacies. Additional information will be provided on review of patient medical record, preparing for initial interview, establishing good relationship with the patient, beginning contact investigation, assessing patient needs and planning for patient follow-up care and discharge.   Each module comes with a workbook.