Tuberculosis: Arresting Everyone's Enemy

From The Critics

Reviewer: Bernard J. Turnock, MD, MPH(University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book covers the clinical basics of tuberculosis, factors affecting its reemergence, and both environmental and personal practices to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in health facilities.
Purpose: In view of the reemergence of this disease and the recent emphasis placed on its prevention and control within healthcare facilities by the Joint Commission, this book fills an educational need. Although control of tuberculosis is a complex public health problem, there are specific issues of great importance to healthcare workers.
Audience: This booklet is designed for healthcare workers, especially those working in hospital settings, and covers several issues related to the prevention and control of tuberculosis.
Features: The notable features of this book are its clear focus on healthcare workers and a very understandable section on environmental control techniques and practices. Other features, including its appearance, references, and index are unremarkable. Several illustrations are included, but some are too complex for the general nonclinical audiences included in the target audience.
Assessment: This is a sketchy, uneven approach to presenting the complexities of prevention and control of tuberculosis in health settings. Some elements of the book are more useful than others; the environmental control section is especially clear. Nonetheless, this is a useful educational offering that may alert healthcare workers to issues important to the Joint Commission in its periodic accreditation activities.

Bernard J. Turnock

This book covers the clinical basics of tuberculosis, factors affecting its reemergence, and both environmental and personal practices to prevent the spread of tuberculosis in health facilities. In view of the reemergence of this disease and the recent emphasis placed on its prevention and control within healthcare facilities by the Joint Commission, this book fills an educational need. Although control of tuberculosis is a complex public health problem, there are specific issues of great importance to healthcare workers. This booklet is designed for healthcare workers, especially those working in hospital settings, and covers several issues related to the prevention and control of tuberculosis. The notable features of this book are its clear focus on healthcare workers and a very understandable section on environmental control techniques and practices. Other features, including its appearance, references, and index are unremarkable. Several illustrations are included, but some are too complex for the general nonclinical audiences included in the target audience. This is a sketchy, uneven approach to presenting the complexities of prevention and control of tuberculosis in health settings. Some elements of the book are more useful than others; the environmental control section is especially clear. Nonetheless, this is a useful educational offering that may alert healthcare workers to issues important to the Joint Commission in its periodic accreditation activities.

2 Stars from Doody