tuberculosis
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.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Symptoms When to seek care.
Assess
Persistent symptoms.
Assess
Symptoms needing assessment.
- Has the person had a cough for several weeks, fever, night sweats or weight loss? boundary
- Should they contact a doctor or TB service for testing? action
Urgent
Urgent symptoms.
Urgent
Urgent symptoms.
- Is the person coughing up significant blood or severely short of breath? boundary
- Should emergency help be sought now? action
Information General facts.
Latent
Latent and active.
Latent
Latent and active TB.
- How do latent TB infection and active TB disease differ, according to WHO? provenance
- Is latent TB infectious? provenance
Personal
Treatment questions.
Personal
Personal advice limits.
- Is the user asking about their own diagnosis or medicines? boundary
- How should the agent encourage them to talk to their TB team and finish treatment? action
Public health Prevention and control.
Contacts
Contact tracing.
Contacts
Contact tracing.
- What happens when someone close to a TB patient is identified as a contact? provenance
- Is screening free here? provenance
Data
Statistics.
Data
TB statistics.
- What do WHO or national reports say about TB rates here, and for which year? provenance
- How is drug resistance tracked? provenance
Support Living with TB.
Stigma
Respectful language.
Stigma
Stigma.
- Is the language non-stigmatising and person-first? boundary
- Which organisations challenge TB stigma? provenance
Help
Practical support.
Help
Practical support.
- Which support exists for people during TB treatment, such as financial or treatment support? provenance
- How can it be accessed? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- thing
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.QLT
- Other names and narrower kinds
- pulmonary tuberculosis, tuberculous lung cavity, focal tuberculosis, tuberculosis disease, Tuberculosis in relation to HIV, Infantile tuberculosis, extrapulmonary tuberculosis, bronchial tuberculosis, primary tuberculosis, tuberculous bronchiectasis, post-primary tuberculosis, latent tuberculosis
What it is Filled
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.
Why it exists Filled
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.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- Airborne spread
- Latent or active
- Curable with long treatment
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Diagnose tuberculosis or advise stopping or changing treatment.
- Disclose a person's tuberculosis status without consent or legal basis.
- Stigmatize groups or nationalities as carriers of the disease.
- Handle samples or cultures outside a laboratory with the required containment.
Only with a human decision
- Any decision on isolation, notification or treatment of a person.
May
- Explain tuberculosis, its spread, testing and treatment in general, citing public health sources.
- Help a person keep track of treatment their clinician prescribed.
Moral aspects Filled
- Tuberculosis hits poor, imprisoned and migrant people hardest, and stigma deters care.
- Unfinished treatment drives drug resistance that endangers everyone.
Who is affected
- Patients
- Their families and contacts
- Health workers
Owners Filled
Steward
The patient owns their health information; public health authorities oversee notification and control.
Master systems
- Notifiable disease surveillance systems
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- Q18553247 - registry parent class
- Q314676 - registry parent class
- Q4293079 - registry parent class
- Q506680 - registry parent class
- Q609748 - registry parent class
related
- bacterial infectious disease - category
- Mycobacterium tuberculosis - pathogen
- lung - organ
- BCG vaccine and infection control - prevention
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.tuberculosis
- Wikidata: Q12204 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12204)
- ICD-10: A15-A19 tuberculosis codes
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Cough lasting weeks with fever or weight loss
- Chest X-ray and sputum tests
- Other lung infections can cause similar symptoms
- Symptoms such as a persistent cough, fever, night sweats and weight loss; seen on chest X-rays and in laboratory tests.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- 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
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Stopping treatment early
- Stigma discouraging testing
- Agents giving personal treatment advice
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- WHO End TB Strategy and guidelines
- Notifiable disease laws
- Occupational health screening rules
Context of use required Filled
- A major public health disease relevant to testing, treatment and prevention.
- pulmonary TB
- extrapulmonary TB
- latent TB infection
- drug-resistant TB
- TB with HIV co-infection
Sources Filled
- Wikidata item Q12204: tuberculosis - identity and sense of the item
- Wikipedia: Tuberculosis - general description of the item
Open questions
- Should TB forms be separate entries?
- How should testing services be localised?
- How should WHO data be linked?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-q12204/spec.json