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Best Practices in TB Control

By Local Health Jurisdiction:

Alameda - (3)

  1. Reporting Resources:TB specific reporting formandTB reporting guidelines
  2. Discharge Treatment Plan
  3. DOT Resources:DOT order form,DOT medication sheets

Long Beach - (2)

  1. TB Continuity of Operations (TB COOP table)- 10/27/08
  2. QFT Patient Handout- 2009

Los Angeles - (2)

  1. The Standardized TB Nursing Case Management Tool and Evaluation Forms for TB Case Managers Performance
  2. 2012 LA County Updated School TB Screening Policy
 Marin - (1)
  1. Targeted School Screening
Riverside - (2)
  1. ATD Resources:Plan Update 2010andPresentation
San Diego - (4)
  1. Infectious & Non-infectious Housing Programs
  2. Leveraging site resources for contact investigation at worksites/groupsites
  3. Use of a mobile chest x-ray van to expand case-finding and evaluation services
  4. Video DOT
San Francisco - (2)
  1. B-Notification follow-up using an assigned position
  2. Insurance Billing for TB Services through Cross-trained Staff
  3. Provider Education Resources on TB in the Foreign-Born
Santa Clara - (1)
  1. New technical instructions for civil surgeons who evaluate applicants who are adjusting their immigration status- 10/16/08

This project evolved from a discussion at theMay 2007 TB Controllers meeting. TB controllers acknowledged that having a forum to showcase innovative and productive TB control activities would enable TB programs to improve their operations, despite decreasing resources.

The Education Committee developed the Best Practices Website* for CTCA toenable local TB program staff to access information regarding what innovative TB control activities other California programs are doing and how they are conducting them.

We hope this new project will provide opportunities for local TB programs to implement new activities in their jurisdictions without having to "reinvent the wheel." Utilizing the information posted on the webpage, TB program staff can learn valuable information from their colleagues which will help improve their programs.

Education Committee members who work in a local TB program submitted the first best practices for the website. Committee members encourage staff from all local TB programs in California to submit at least one best practice from their respective jurisdictions. Please submit a best practice from your jurisdiction to the Education Committee using this template(.pdf) (click here for a Word Document). The more best practices described on this website, the more useful this project will be!

We welcome multiple submissions on a single topic or activity. Different jurisdictions do things differently; demonstrating how various programs conduct a similar activity can be helpful to other programs wishing to implement or improve a TB control activity.

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