TB guidelines and key documents

The following links provide information for health professionals on the latest TB management and control guidelines, both in the UK and internationally, as well as links to other key documents in the field.  Links to resources specifically relating to  BCG vaccination information are also available by clicking the link.

UK

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence
 

• Revised TB NICE guidance 2011 (with updated Interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA) guidance). HPA position statement on the use of IGRA in preparation.

Department of Health
 

• Tuberculosis prevention and treatment: a toolkit for planning, commissioning and delivering high-quality services in England (June 2007)
• Health clearance for tuberculosis, hepatitis B, hepatitis C and HIV: New healthcare workers (March 2007)
• Stopping Tuberculosis in England: An action plan from the Chief Medical Officer (October 2004)
• UK Guidance on the Prevention and Control of Transmission of 1. HIV-related Tuberculosis 2. Drug-resistant, including Multiple Drug-resistant Tuberculosis (September 1998)

British Thoracic Society
 

• Guidelines for the prevention and management of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in adult patients with chronic kidney disease (June 2010)
• Recommendations for assessing risk and for managing Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection and disease in patients due to start anti-TNF-a treatment (2005)
• Managing Passengers with Respiratory Disease Planning Air Travel (2004)
• Management of Opportunist Mycobacterial Infections: Joint Tuberculosis Committee Guidelines 1999 (2000)

International

USA - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
 

• TB Guidelines by Topic (July 2010)

World Health Organization
 

• Guidance on ethics of tuberculosis prevention, care and control (2010)
• Rapid advice: treatment of tuberculosis in children (2010)
• Guidelines for surveillance of drug resistance in tuberculosis (2009)
• Treatment of Tuberculosis: guidelines for national programmes (2009)
• WHO policy on TB infection control in health-care facilities, congregate settings and households (2009)
• Guidelines for the programmatic management of drug-resistant tuberculosis - Emergency Update (2008)
• Tuberculosis and air travel: guidelines for prevention and control, 3rd ed. (June 2008)
• Guidance for national tuberculosis programmes on the management of tuberculosis in children (2006) 
• TB/HIV Clinical Manual (2004)
• Tuberculosis Control in Prisons (2001)

Last reviewed: 11 January 2012