SEARCHED TERM
Passive case-finding
DEFINITION
Patient-initiated pathway to tuberculosis diagnosis involving a person with tuberculosis who experiences symptoms that they recognize as serious; the person having access to and seeking care and presenting spontaneously at an appropriate health facility; a health worker correctly assessing that the person fulfils the criteria for presumptive tuberculosis; and successful use of a diagnostic algorithm with sufficient sensitivity and specificity to diagnose tuberculosis.
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Patient-initiated pathway to TB diagnosis involving a person with TB disease who experiences symptoms that they recognize as serious; the person having access to and seeking care, and presenting spontaneously at an appropriate health facility; a health worker correctly assessing that the person fulfils the criteria for presumptive TB; and successful use of a diagnostic algorithm with sufficient sensitivity and specificity to diagnose TB.
OTHER DEFINITIONS
Detection of TB cases by active testing (sputum smear) of TB suspects
Patient-initiated pathway to TB diagnosis involving: (1) a person with active TB experiencing symptoms that he or she recognizes as serious; (2) the person having access to and seeking care, and presenting spontaneously at an appropriate health facility; (3) a health worker correctly assessing whether the person fulfils the criteria for suspected TB; and (4) the successful use of a diagnostic algorithm with sufficient sensitivity and specificity. Passive case-finding may involve an element of systematic screening if the identification of people with suspected TB is done systematically for all people seeking care in a health facility or clinic
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