A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Public Health Laboratories Task Force presents a framework to improve tuberculosis (TB) laboratory services in the United States. It describes specific actions and performance measures to guide the development of an integrated system for TB testing and information flow. The author is Thomas M. Shinnick of the CDC.
Use Cases
- Analyzing challenges in TB laboratory systems based on the five key challenges described in the report
- Developing performance measures for laboratory information systems based on the described framework
- Planning communication strategies among laboratorians, clinicians, and TB-control officials based on the described principles
Strengths
- Authored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association of Public Health Laboratories, providing authoritative guidance.
- Describes a specific framework with five defined challenges and corresponding actions for TB laboratory services.
Limitations
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Provenance
- Source
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Collection Method
- Task force report and recommendations.
- Geography
- United States