Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Recommendations and Reports, December 30, 2005 / Vol. 54 / No. RR-17

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• Alternative Title:
  Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005
• Journal Article:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports
• Personal Author:
  Jensen, Paul A. ; Lambert, Lauren A. ; Iademarco, Michael F. ; Ridzon, Renee.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention (U.S.) ; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  In 1994, CDC published the Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities, 1994. The guidelines were issued in response to 1) a resurgence of tuberculosis (TB) disease that occurred in the United States in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, 2) the documentation of several high-profile health-care–associated (previously termed “nosocomial”) outbreaks related to an increase in the prevalence of TB disease and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection, 3) lapses in infection-control practices, 4) delays in the diagnosis and treatment of persons with infectious TB disease, and
  
  5) the appearance and transmission of multidrug-resistant (MDR) TB strains. The 1994 guidelines, which followed statements issued in 1982 and 1990, presented recommendations for TB-infection control based on a risk assessment process that classified health-care facilities according to categories of TB risk, with a corresponding series of administrative, environmental, and respiratory-protection control measures.
  
  Introduction -- Overview -- HCWs Who Should Be Included in a TB Surveillance Program -- Risk for Health-Care-Associated Transmission of M. tuberculosis -- Fundamentals of TB Infection Control -- Relevance to Biologic Terrorism Preparedness -- -- Recommendations for Preventing Transmission of M. tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings -- TB Infection-Control Program -- TB Risk Assessment -- Risk Classification Examples -- Managing Patients Who Have Suspected or Confirmed TB Disease: General Recommendations -- Managing Patients Who Have Suspected or Confirmed TB Disease: Considerations for Special Circumstances and Settings -- Training and Educating HCWs -- TB Infection-Control Surveillance -- Problem Evaluation -- Collaboration with the Local or State Health Department -- Environmental Controls -- Respiratory Protection -- Cough-Inducing and Aerosol-Generating Procedures -- -- Supplements -- Estimating the Infectiousness of a TB Patient -- Diagnostic Procedures for LTBI and TB Disease -- Treatment Procedures for LTBI and TB Disease -- Surveillance and Detection of M. tuberculosis Infections in Health-Care Settings -- Environmental Controls -- Respiratory Protection -- Cleaning, Disinfecting, and Sterilizing Patient-Care -- Equipment and Rooms -- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) -- -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Terms and Abbreviations Used in this Report -- Glossary of Definitions -- Appendices -- Continuing Education Activity
  
  
• Content Notes:
  Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-102).
• Subjects:
  Communicable Disease Control / Standards Cross Infection / Prevention & Control Health Facility Environment Infection Control Infectious Disease Transmission, Patient-to-Professional Mycobacterium Tuberculosis
• Source:
  Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR): Recommendations and Reports, 2005; v. 54, no. 17
• Series:
  Recommendations and Reports: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
• ISSN:
  1057-5987 (print) ; 1545-8601 (digital)
• Document Type:
  Journal Issue
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  144 pdf pages
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  17
• Collection(s):
  Guidelines and Recommendations Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
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