[Laboratory service optimization in the implementation of a complex programme for detection and treatment patients with tuberculosis]

Klin Lab Diagn. 2005 Apr:(4):38-40.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

The paper presents a model of laboratory service in implementing a complex program aimed at detecting and treating patients with tuberculosis in the Tomsk Region. Organizational, methodological, and managerial measures to set up bacteriological stations and a main (reference) laboratory for microbiological sputum study in Tomsk, intensification of this work at all clinical-and-diagnostic laboratories of general health care facilities have improved the quality of the whole system detecting bacterial isolators and ensured a close organizational and methodological interaction between the therapeutic-and-diagnostic institutions of the general medical system and tuberculosis-controlling service.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Bacteriological Techniques
  • Communicable Disease Control / organization & administration
  • Drug Resistance, Bacterial
  • Health Services*
  • Humans
  • Laboratories / organization & administration*
  • Mass Screening / organization & administration
  • Quality of Health Care / organization & administration
  • Siberia / epidemiology
  • Sputum / microbiology*
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / diagnosis
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / drug therapy
  • Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / epidemiology*