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Public Health Nursing Model for Contact Follow‐up of Patients with Pulmonary Tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Kellogg Bonnie,
Dye Charlene,
Cox Karen,
Rosenow Greta
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
public health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.471
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1525-1446
pISSN - 0737-1209
DOI - 10.1111/j.1525-1446.1987.tb00520.x
Subject(s) - medicine , communicable disease , pulmonary tuberculosis , tuberculosis , public health , disease , public health nursing , compliance (psychology) , intensive care medicine , pulmonary disease , nursing , environmental health , pathology , psychology , social psychology
Contact follow‐up for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is an important component in the control of this communicable disease. In two recent cases, district public health nurses used a model that resulted in 100 percent compliance in the initial screening of industrial contacts to contagious pulmonary tuberculosis. Seven factors are believed to have contributed to this success rate. This approach to case management seems valuable, since compliance in follow‐up is a major obstacle in the control of the disease.