Tuberculosis Screening, Testing, and Treatment of US Health Care Personnel: ACOEM and NTCA Joint Task Force on Implementation of the 2019 MMWR Recommendations

J Occup Environ Med. 2020 Jul;62(7):e355-e369. doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001904.

Abstract

: On May 17, 2019, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Tuberculosis Controllers Association issued new Recommendations for Tuberculosis Screening, Testing, and Treatment of Health Care Personnel, United States, 2019, updating the health care personnel-related sections of the Guidelines for Preventing the Transmission of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Health-Care Settings, 2005. This companion document offers the collective effort and experience of occupational health, infectious disease, and public health experts from major academic and public health institutions across the United States and expands on each section of the 2019 recommendations to provide clarifications, explanations, and considerations that go beyond the 2019 recommendations to answer questions that may arise and to offer strategies for implementation.

Publication types

  • Practice Guideline

MeSH terms

  • Advisory Committees / organization & administration
  • Advisory Committees / standards
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, U.S. / standards
  • Disease Transmission, Infectious / prevention & control*
  • Health Personnel / standards*
  • Humans
  • Infection Control / standards
  • Latent Tuberculosis / diagnosis
  • Latent Tuberculosis / prevention & control
  • Latent Tuberculosis / therapy
  • Latent Tuberculosis / transmission
  • Mass Screening / standards
  • Mycobacterium tuberculosis / isolation & purification
  • Occupational Health / standards
  • Risk Assessment
  • Societies, Medical / standards
  • Tuberculosis / diagnosis*
  • Tuberculosis / prevention & control
  • Tuberculosis / therapy*
  • Tuberculosis / transmission
  • United States