What the Clinician Should Know 4th. Ed., 2000

This curriculum has been designed to present basic information about TB for health care professionals. It is intended for use as a reference manual for clinicians caring for persons with or at high risk for TB disease or infection. In addition, it has been designed to be useful in developing educational programs.

This document has been prepared by National Tuberculosis Training Initiative (USA), cosponsored by the American Thoracic Society and CDC to meet the following goals:

	To increase clinicians’ knowledge of the current TB trends.
	To assist clinicians with identifying those at highest risk for TB infection and disease.
	To increase clinicians’ index of suspicion for TB in high-risk patients.
	To increase clinicians’ use of treatment for high-risk persons with latent TB infection.
	To increase clinicians’ knowledge about appropriate and effective treatment regimens.
	To increase clinicians’ use of directly observed therapy (DOT) and other adherence-promoting methods.

This document can be downloaded from:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchstp/tb/pubs/corecurr/default.htm

or request for a printed copy can be made by contacting Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Division of Tuberculosis Elimination Email: tbinfo@cdc.gov