Tuberculosis: standards and resources for quality improvement in resource limited settings

Tuberculosis is a significant problem, infecting nearly 9 million new patients per year and killing about 2 million a year. The fight to eradicate TB is located primarily in countries that are resource poor and disproportionately affected by HIV and the development of drug resistant TB. The primary means with which to affect TB globally are to decrease transmission locally, mainly by effective identification, diagnosis, and treatment of TB patients. Providing quality care to TB patients is therefore essential to the global effort to eradicate TB. This review describes the problem of TB, identifies the essential services of TB control programs and standards of care, and reviews the available resources for quality improvement in resource limited settings. Finally, recommendations for a quality improvement plan for a TB control program in resource limited settings are made.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Public Health

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Grantor

The University of Texas Medical Branch

Year dc:date.issued

2010

Author dc:creator

• Katherine Louise McQuade

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Christine Arcari, PhD MPH

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Susan Weller, PhD
• Philip Keiser, MD

• tuberculosis
• TB
• resource limited settings
• quality improvement
• quality assurance
• developing countries

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright © is held by the author. Presentation of this material on the TDL web site by The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston was made possible under a limited license grant from the author who has retained all copyrights in the works.

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Dc Identifier Other

etd-08212010-093720

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:utmb-ir.tdl.org:2152.3/214