Guideline

Systematic screening for active tuberculosis: principles and recommendations

Year of Publication

2013

Issuing Institution

WHO

Links

WHO IRIS,Google Scholar,WHO IRIS

Recommendations

8 included recommendations

Household contacts and other close contacts should be systematically screened for active TB.

Status

Retired

Recommended in favor

Strong

Certainty of evidence

Low

People living with HIV should be systematically screened for active TB at each visit to a health facility.

Status

Updated

Recommended in favor

Strong

Certainty of evidence

Low

Current and former workers in workplaces with silica exposure should be systematically screened for active TB.

Status

Maintained

Recommended in favor

Strong

Certainty of evidence

Low

Systematic screening for active TB should be considered in prisons and other penitentiary institutions

Status

Retired

Recommended in favor

Conditional

Certainty of evidence

Very low

Systematic screening for active TB should be considered in people with an untreated fibrotic chest X-ray lesion.

Status

Maintained

Recommended in favor

Conditional

Certainty of evidence

Very low

In settings where the TB prevalence in the general population is 100/100 000 population or higher, systematic screening for active TB should be considered among people who are seeking health care or who are in health care and who belong to selected risk groups.

Status

Maintained

Recommended in favor

Conditional

Certainty of evidence

Very low

(a) Systematic screening for active TB may be considered for geographically defined subpopulations with extremely high levels of undetected TB (1% prevalence or higher).

Status

Updated

Recommended in favor

Conditional

Certainty of evidence

Very low

(b) Systematic screening for active TB may be considered also for other subpopulations that have very poor access to health care, such as people living in urban slums, homeless people, people living in remote areas with poor access to health care, and other vulnerable or marginalized groups including some indigenous populations, migrants and refugees.

Status

Updated

Recommended in favor

Conditional

Certainty of evidence

Very low