Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › TUBERCULOSIS › Chapter 246-170 - Tuberculosis - Prevention, treatment, and control › Section 246-170-011 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the
				  definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter.
"Case management" means a comprehensive, ongoing
				  identification of needs, including the need for any medical, social,
				  educational, or other support services; the development and implementation of a
				  detailed plan of services and related activities; use of community linkages;
				  and advocacy for the client performed in a prescribed, accountable
				  manner.
"Confirmed" or "confirmed case" means an individual who has a
				  positive bacteriologic culture for
Mycobacterium tuberculosis
complex or a suspected case that shows response to an appropriate course of
				  treatment.
"Department" means the department of health.
"Detention" or "detain" means the act of restricting an
				  individual's movement by confining the person.
"Directly observed therapy (DOT)" and "directly observed
				  preventive therapy (DOPT)" mean providing oral medications to patients and
				  observing ingestion of medications by patients.
"Infected" means an individual who has tubercle bacilli as
				  identified by a positive tuberculin skin test, but is not capable of
				  transmitting the organism to another person.
"Infectious" means the stage of disease in which an
				  individual transmits viable tuberculosis organisms into the air.
"Inpatient" means health care furnished to an individual who
				  has been admitted to a hospital.
"Outpatient" means health care furnished to an individual who
				  is not an inpatient.
"Personal protective equipment" means respirators and other
				  equipment as required by the department of labor and industries.
"Prevention" means the interventions that interrupt the
				  spread of tuberculosis, either within an individual, within the population, or
				  both.
"Preventive therapy" means either treatment to prevent
				  infection in an uninfected person or treatment to prevent disease in an
				  infected person.
"Primary health care provider" means the person who assumes
				  the day-to-day medical care of a tuberculosis patient.
"Suspected case" means an individual with signs or symptoms
				  suggestive of tuberculosis disease prior to confirmation.
"Treatment" means a course of long-term multiple drug or
				  other appropriate therapy prescribed for an individual with suspected or
				  confirmed disease in accordance with accepted medical practice and current
				  applicable national and state guidelines, and may include preventive
				  therapy.
"Tuberculin skin test" means the introduction of purified
				  protein derivative (PPD) by the Mantoux method.
"Tuberculosis community health worker" means an unlicensed
				  person trained to perform tuberculin skin testing, directly observed therapy,
				  and directly observed preventive therapy and working pursuant to
				  chapter
				  70.28 RCW as part of a
				  program established by a state or local health officer to control
				  tuberculosis.
Statutory Authority: ESB 6158 and
					 chapter
					 70.28 RCW. 95-04-035,
					 § 246-170-011, filed 1/24/95, effective
					 1/24/95.