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DIAGNOSIS: TUBERCULOSIS
- Source :
- Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional. 24:236-246
- Publication Year :
- 2006
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2006.
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Abstract
- Home care staff frequently become anxious when a patient with active infectious tuberculosis is referred for home care. Using a home care patient case study, this article reviews tuberculosis epidemiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and infection control. It also discusses home health staff's role in case finding because home care patients with chronic disease and immunosuppression conditions are at risk for active tuberculosis disease.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Advanced and Specialized Nursing
Community and Home Care
Infection Control
Health (social science)
Tuberculin Test
Antitubercular Agents
Masks
General Medicine
Community Health Nursing
Global Health
Home Care Services
Diagnosis, Differential
Cost of Illness
Patient Education as Topic
Risk Factors
Humans
Drug Therapy, Combination
Tuberculosis, Pulmonary
Nursing Assessment
Occupational Health
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 0884741X
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Home Healthcare Nurse: The Journal for the Home Care and Hospice Professional
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....14eacdd2db4ddf5dba1adfdc23e33f1e
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00004045-200604000-00012