Get Sutter Health Tuberculosis Screening Questionnaire And Quantiferon Lab Charting 2020

The purpose of this tool is to identify adults with infectious tuberculosis (TB) to prevent them from spreading disease. Do not repeat testing unless there are new risk factors since the last negative test.

The CDC guidelines on the use of QFT recommend that recent contacts who test QFT negative prior to 8 weeks after the end of exposure, be retested 8 to 10 weeks later—similar to the recommendations for the TST. Many other national guidelines recommend a similar approach.

Post-Exposure Screening and Testing All health care personnel with a known exposure to TB disease should receive a TB symptom screen and timely testing, if indicated. Health care personnel with a previous negative TB test result should be tested immediately and re-tested 8 to 10 weeks after the last known exposure.

Have you ever had a positive TB skin test? Have you ever had close contact with anyone who was sick with TB? Have you ever been vaccinated with BCG?

Minimum state regulations require TB screening once every 4 years. School staff members may request TB testing more frequently from their health care provider, but school districts are not required to provide it more than once every 4 years.

Repeat risk assessments should occur every four years (unless otherwise required) to identify any additional risk factors, and TB testing based on the results of the TB risk assessment. Re- testing should only be done in persons who previously tested negative, and have new risk factors since the last assessment.

The risk assessment should be administered at least once. Persons can be screened for new risk factors at subsequent preventive health visits. Because IGRA has increased specificity for TB infection in persons vaccinated with BCG, IGRA is preferred over the TST in these persons.

Post-Exposure Screening and Testing All health care personnel with a known exposure to TB disease should receive a TB symptom screen and timely testing, if indicated. Health care personnel with a previous negative TB test result should be tested immediately and re-tested 8 to 10 weeks after the last known exposure.