Tb Screening form
  • TB SCREENING & SYMPTOMS EVALUATION FORM

  • To be completed by employee:
  • Have you ever had a positive TB skin test or history of TB infection? If the answer is YES, please answer the following:
  • Have you ever had the BCG vaccine?
  • Do you have prolonged or recurrent fever?
  • Have you recently lost weight?
  • Do you have a chronic cough?
  • Do you cough up blood?
  • Do you have sweating at night?
  • Do you have any of the following risk factors which may substantially? Increase the risk of tuberculosis?
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  • Health Care Personnel (HCP) Baseline Individual TB Risk Assessment

  • HCP should be considered at increased risk for TB if any of the following statements are marked "Yes":
  • Temporary or permanent residence of ≥1 month in a country with a high TB rate
  • Current or planned immunosuppression, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, organ transplant recipient, treatment with a TNF-alpha antagonist (e.g., infliximab, etanercept, or other), chronic steroids (equivalent of prednisone ≥15 mg/day for ≥1 month) or other immunosuppressive medication
  • Close contact with someone who has had infectious TB disease since the last TB test
  • Abbreviations: HCP, health-care personnel; TB, tuberculosis; TNF, tumor necrosis factor. Individual risk assessment information can be useful in interpreting TB test results (see Lewinsohn DM, Leonard MK, LoBue PA, et al. Official American Thoracic Society/Infectious Diseases Society of America/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Clinical Practice Guidelines: Diagnosis of tuberculosis in adults and children. Clin Infec Dis 2017;64;111-5). Adapted from: Risk assessment form developed by the California Department of Health, Tuberculosis Control Branch. Sosa LE, Njie GJ, Lobato MN, et al. Tuberculosis Screening, Testing, and Treatment of U.S. Health Care Personnel: Recommendations from the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association and CDC, 2019. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep 2019,68:439-43. https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/68/wr/mm6819a3.htm?s_cid=mm6819a3_w
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