Open Access‘Cough officer’ nurses in a general medical clinic successfully detect drug-susceptible and -resistant tuberculosis
Author(s) -
Sheela Shenoi,
Ralph Brooks,
Kathryn Catterick,
Anthony Moll,
Gerald Friedland
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
public health action
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2220-8372
DOI - 10.5588/pha.12.0056
Subject(s) - medicine , tuberculosis , sputum , referral , drug resistance , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , officer , family medicine , chronic cough , pathology , asthma , political science , law , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
Intensive case finding (ICF) for tuberculosis (TB) is recommended by the World Health Organization among known human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients. However, ICF may also be appropriate in generalized patient populations.