无结核社区建设中的主动筛查策略OA北大核心CSTPCD

Active case finding and tuberculosis(TB)preventive treatment are core elements of zero tuberculosis community project,and a feasible screening strategy based on local TB epidemic and practice will be benefit to find out TB patients/subclinical TB patients and high risk populations.Based on reviewing both the World Health Organization guidelines on active case finding and management of latent TB infection and evidence-based guidelines for screening suggested by domestic scholars,authors suggest that high risk populations in community,peoples living or working in key places,and patients visiting hospitals should be screened for TB in zero tuberculosis community project sites.The specific screening strategy for every kind of target population and the following categorical intervention have been provided by the authors.