← Back to catalogue
Research draft

tuberculosis

vr.tr.tuberculosis · XCT.QLT

Let an agent give general, sourced, non-stigmatising information about tuberculosis, encourage testing and completion of treatment through health services, route urgent symptoms, and avoid personal medical advice.

Thing Registry Cross-cutting context

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent give general, sourced, non-stigmatising information about tuberculosis, encourage testing and completion of treatment through health services, route urgent symptoms, and avoid personal medical advice.

An infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, usually affecting the lungs and spread through the air when people with active lung disease cough; it can also be latent without symptoms, is preventable, notifiable and curable with a full course of treatment, though drug-resistant forms exist.

What it is for: A major public health disease relevant to testing, treatment and prevention.

It can be recognise symptoms that need medical assessment; find testing and treatment services; understand latent and active TB in general terms; find public health and support information.

Distinguishing features

Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Airborne spread

Latent or active

Curable with long treatment

What it looks like

Symptoms such as a persistent cough, fever, night sweats and weight loss; seen on chest X-rays and in laboratory tests.

How it is recognised

Cough lasting weeks with fever or weight loss

Chest X-ray and sputum tests

Other lung infections can cause similar symptoms

Related models

is a kind of - category

bacterial infectious disease

is caused by - pathogen

Mycobacterium tuberculosis

affects - organ

lung

is prevented by - prevention

BCG vaccine and infection control

In practice

Families and kinds

pulmonary TB

extrapulmonary TB

latent TB infection

drug-resistant TB

TB with HIV co-infection

Identifiers

ICD-10 A15-A19 tuberculosis codes

Standards and regulation

WHO End TB Strategy and guidelines

Notifiable disease laws

Occupational health screening rules

Failure modes and hazards

Stopping treatment early

Stigma discouraging testing

Agents giving personal treatment advice

Also called

pulmonary tuberculosistuberculous lung cavityfocal tuberculosistuberculosis diseaseTuberculosis in relation to HIVInfantile tuberculosisextrapulmonary tuberculosisbronchial tuberculosisprimary tuberculosistuberculous bronchiectasispost-primary tuberculosislatent tuberculosissilicotuberculosismultidrug-resistant tuberculosisinfiltrative tuberculosisnodular lung tuberculosisGhon focusSimon focuscutaneous tuberculosisabdominal tuberculosiscentral nervous system tuberculosisendocrine tuberculosisear tuberculosisurogenital tuberculosisextensively drug-resistant tuberculosisGhon's complexsplenic tuberculosistuberculous mesenteric glandTotally drug-resistant tuberculosis

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.tuberculosis

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Symptoms When to seek care.

Early testing matters.

Assess

Persistent symptoms.

Assess

Symptoms needing assessment.

  1. Has the person had a cough for several weeks, fever, night sweats or weight loss? boundary
  2. Should they contact a doctor or TB service for testing? action

Urgent

Urgent symptoms.

Urgent

Urgent symptoms.

  1. Is the person coughing up significant blood or severely short of breath? boundary
  2. Should emergency help be sought now? action
Information General facts.

Sourced information only.

Latent

Latent and active.

Latent

Latent and active TB.

  1. How do latent TB infection and active TB disease differ, according to WHO? provenance
  2. Is latent TB infectious? provenance

Personal

Treatment questions.

Personal

Personal advice limits.

  1. Is the user asking about their own diagnosis or medicines? boundary
  2. How should the agent encourage them to talk to their TB team and finish treatment? action
Public health Prevention and control.

Public health leads.

Contacts

Contact tracing.

Contacts

Contact tracing.

  1. What happens when someone close to a TB patient is identified as a contact? provenance
  2. Is screening free here? provenance

Data

Statistics.

Data

TB statistics.

  1. What do WHO or national reports say about TB rates here, and for which year? provenance
  2. How is drug resistance tracked? provenance
Support Living with TB.

Support aids recovery.

Stigma

Respectful language.

Stigma

Stigma.

  1. Is the language non-stigmatising and person-first? boundary
  2. Which organisations challenge TB stigma? provenance

Help

Practical support.

Help

Practical support.

  1. Which support exists for people during TB treatment, such as financial or treatment support? provenance
  2. How can it be accessed? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should TB forms be separate entries?
  • How should testing services be localised?
  • How should WHO data be linked?
Draft as JSON