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TB Notes NewsletterReturn to TB Notes 2, 2006 Main Menu This is an archived document. The links and content are no longer being updated. No. 2, 2006LABORATORY UPDATESAPHL TB Steering Committee Meets to Discuss Implementation of TB Task Force ReportThe Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) TB Steering
Committee, chaired by Dr. Nancy Warren of The Committee members felt that updating the 1995 manual Mycobacterium
tuberculosis: Assessing Your Laboratory and providing an online
repository of existing assessment tools for public health laboratories
were the best ways to address the Task Force report’s first benchmark
of assessing a TB laboratory’s capabilities. In addition, these
steps would address issues such as capacity of services and identifying
unmet needs, obstacles to obtaining laboratory services, and opportunities
for improvement. The revised assessment manual would emphasize a
systems approach consisting of active communication between laboratories
to improve coordination of specimen and culture referral mechanisms,
to reduce delays in testing and reporting. A working group
led by Dr. David Warshauer of The Steering Committee enlisted the assistance of the former chair
of the APHL TB Task Force, Dr. Eric Blank of Other topics discussed by the Committee during the meeting included the need for continued advocacy efforts for increased TB funding of both programs and laboratories; the need to continue building on the relationship between APHL, the state TB laboratories, and the National TB Controllers Association, and to support meetings of interest including the Northeastern TB Controllers meeting and other regional controllers’ meetings; and interest in a potential TB laboratory conference to be held jointly with NTCA. —Reported by Anthony Tran, MPH, MT(ASCP) APHL TB Steering Committee Introduces New MemberThe APHL TB Task Force report entitled The Future of TB Laboratory
Services emphasizes a systems approach to TB laboratory services
and stresses a paradigm shift, placing the role of the laboratory
as the centerpiece between clinician, patient, and TB control program. Anne
Weber, director of the —Reported by Anthony Tran, MPH, MT(ASCP)
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