Tuberculosis Control: A Cooperative Public and Private Model

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Challenges to public health programs for tuberculosis control are mounting. A review by the Institute of Medicine suggests that public health departments divest themselves of direct patient care to focus on broader concepts of management in the control of infectious diseases and other health care issues. The increase in the number of infectious diseases specialists in clinical practice in many geographic areas has provided an opportunity for cooperative private and public efforts to meet public health disease control objectives while improving medical management of patients who have traditionally sought care from local public health departments for the treatment of communicable diseases. This article describes a cooperative model for managing tuberculosis that was developed by a group of infectious diseases specialists with the public health department in Pierce County, Washington. Private-practice-based care of active tuberculosis cases achieved a cost savings for the health department and better compliance with treatment recommendations.

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